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And you were wrong.
Every rigorous study, every one, with over 100 years of data, says exactly the same thing: there is not one shred of evidence that clutch hitting exists. Not one. Zero evidence. If it existed it would be detectable. It is not detectable.
Bill James runs the numbers and tells you that the data says it doesn't exist.
Dick Cramer runs the numbers and tells you that the data says it doesn't exist.
Pete Palmer runs the numbers and tells you that the data says it doesn't exist.
FanGraphs, Beyond the Box Score, and Baseball Prospectus all run the numbers and tell you that the data says it doesn't exist.
None of you can run the numbers and find a shred of evidence that it exists. You are in opposition to reality. Yet you continue to believe.
William K. Clifford, in “The Ethics of Belief,” wrote that “It is wrong, always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” Yet you clutch hitting believers do so.
Christopher Hitchens put it a different way. “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
You myth believers have no evidence. None. Therefore I dismiss you.
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