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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
In a sport like baseball, when there are pressure situations, there will always be a winner and a loser (the batter will get a hit or the pitcher will get an out, for example). But that happens in non-pressure situations too. So, we can't say that because one of the two players "won" a plate appearance that it was because they were clutch or because the other one was a choker.
And any sample of a population can be above or below the mean of the population. Be it high-leverage situations, August, stadiums with domes, whatever
So, we can't just look at those samples and make declarations.
And studies like
Repeatedly show that
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Not to mention fielders, baserunners, manager's decisions, etc. If an outfielder robs a guy of a homerun in a "high-leverage situation" does that make him a "clutch" fielder?