My sabermetric problem with that

In Reply to: He seems to thrive there. posted by OldBruin on July 22, 2009 at 14:47:55

For each spot you move down in the batting order you lose an expected 18 plate appearances per season. Moving down say, 5 spots mweans almost 100 fewer plate appearances> For a 320 power hitter vs a 250 non-power hitter that's a pretty significant reduction in production.

So I just have a personal preference of putting my most productive hitters in the top 4 spots.

But yeah I know it's more complicated than that.

Thanks for the responses.

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• Well, so far the stats don't seem to bear out what you said. OldBruin 23:31:27 07/23/09 (1)
  • Wasn't Blake 8th for a large stretch? SuperBruinMan 23:55:44 07/24/09 (0)

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