Posted by toddcommish on 9/22/2016 11:36:00 AM (view original):
Posted by sjpoker on 9/22/2016 7:32:00 AM (view original):
Dayum. Dahs slinging logic.
No, he's applying a (partially) unrelated statistic to the example. The example was about driving in a runner from third with less than two outs. Dahs brings up driving in ALL baserunners (including those who get to trot home ahead of a homer).
If he brought the stat regarding scoring runners from third with less than two out, and compared it to the rest of the league, THAT would be bringing logic. As it is, he brought a tangential stat that could be misinterpreted as "reason".
Kinda like the media does...
Did you bother to read past the first paragraph? Because everything I said seems pretty darn relevant to this paragraph:
Yes, being able to crush homers is great, but even the best hit 50 a season. That leaves a lot of other at-bats. It's better in those situations to just put bat on ball and groundout to the right side or shoot one into the outfield for a sac fly than swing out of your shoes at every strike and hope it goes 500 feet.
Do you disagree? Seems like JTP is saying that swinging less hard would result in more efficient cashing in of runners. I'm pretty sure the info that the team allegedly swinging too hard and not cashing in enough of its baserunners is actually near the top of the league in that stat is relevant here. You have to include the guys that score on homers because - and stay with me here - those runs
actually count just as much. If hitting home runs causes you to score more efficiently overall then who cares what proportion of runners were on which base before they scored?