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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 15, 2019 21:05:54 GMT -5
tht.fangraphs.com/under-pressure-the-psychology-of-clutch/I posted it because Mookie is featured (not in the chart, but the text) as a player whose performance rises significantly in clutch situations...and JD Martinez as the worst clutch hitter of all. Thoughts? Found it quite interesting to see who is in each list.
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Post by James Dunne on Aug 16, 2019 8:39:29 GMT -5
It's funny that this list was posted a few hours before the second-place guy in clutchiness hit a walk-off grand slam after getting down in the count 0-2.
It's also interesting how Wade Boggs working walks and wearing out pitchers in clutch situations was, in his day, seen as a weakness and him being greedy. So I am glad that we have progressed beyond that (Brennaman complaints about Joey Votto aside).
Anyway, if someone gets to 1000 clutch situation plate appearances with a meaningful difference, then it's time to talk about it. Clutch statistics like these can serve as explainers for why a team is under (or over)-performing its run expectancy, but if it had predictive value than the guys on the list would be the same from year to year.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 16, 2019 8:46:32 GMT -5
Would have been interesting to see how David Ortiz, Carl Yastrzemski, and Dwight Evans would have graded out. In my opinion, in that order, those are the three most clutch players I've seen in Red Sox history. Of course none of them had the biggest clutch hit in Red Sox history - that would belong to Dave Henderson who had two of them and had the Red Sox held on in 1986, he would have had that special Dave Roberts status and been even more revered than he was.
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