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Old 04-14-2020, 09:14 PM   #14
ablobj
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Originally Posted by CBeisbol View Post
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
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?
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