That’s what clutch means. Does a player step up his game when the game is tight? Bonds for all the accolades he got had a long rep as a player who crumbled in those situations. Schilling was the opposite a borderline hall of famer already who went to insanely good in pressure situations. Players like him and Rivera and others do do that. In another sport Robert Horry was a solid player who was incredibly clutch. Clutch just asks do you do better or worse in high or low leverage situations. Vlad is neutral. Which is fine his numbers are insane and just doing normal is not the problem. But Grichuk, Gurriel and Biggio certainly are.
Anyway it is mostly a descriptive stat and doesn’t really have much value as predicted. But the fact that Boston is +5 and we’re -3 as a team has a lot to do with why their record is so much better despite similar run differentials.
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