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Originally Posted by JayP
Here's a much better article than the Baseball Prospectus one than destroys the theory of protection:
http://books.google.com/books?id=CkO...kKXTQ#PPA26,M1
It even shows that protection is often a negative. The main point of the article is that pitching is not always equal. Pitchers take stuff off their pitches all game depending on the situation and the batter. So when you say ManRam saw more fastballs because Ortiz is in the batter's box it means nothing. Those fastballs aren't the same ones as Julio Lugo sees in the #9 spot. |
Interesting and informative. Thanks for posting those.
Would you surmise that a team that alternated between strong and weak batters would be superior to a cluster of strong hitters and a cluster of weak?
Extrapolating what I got from your post, that way a pitcher couldn't "coast" for a Lugo type and then "buckle down" for the heart of the order.