Bill James: Big Papi, Chipper, Pujols come through when it counts

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S.I. James: Big Papi, Chipper, Pujols come through when it counts
Published 11/30/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
S.I. James: Big Papi, Chipper, Pujols come through when it counts "Historian Bill James tackles one of the biggest mysteries of the game: Does clutch hitting exist? His conclusions may surprise you.” From The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008...(as opposed to “Baseball Magazine”, which James refuses to acknowledge...grrr) One reason that I have been reluctant to write about clutch hitting, in the absence of hard data, is that I am reluctant to interpret sporting events as tests of character. If you write that Johnny Baseball is a poor clutch hitter, what you are implicitly ...

Bill James - Mr. Clutch
Published 11/30/2007 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
... Bill James, for The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008, takes a look at clutch hitting. It's featured as a special to SI.com. (Hat tip to ...

not to bury cesar, not to praise him
Published 12/1/2007 by lboros <info@vivaelbirdos.com> at Viva El Birdos: Front Page Posts
... a terrible signing for a championship-level team, but a typical signing for a mediocre team. the cards are mediocre --- and would be whether izturis, ryan, jack wilson, david eckstein, or ben zobrist were playing shortstop. i haven't had time to sift through the flurry of trade rumors involving scott rolen and the milwaukee brewers, so no comment for now. here's a short Q+A with coulda-been stl gm chris antonetti; here's an article on clutch hitting which documents albert pujols' greatness in big situations. p.s.: godspeed, john rodriguez . . . .

Bill James: Papi is Clutch
Published 12/1/2007 by YF at YFSF
... Lots of interesting material from The Dean over on SI.com. In an excerpt from his 2008 Abstract, James reverses himself and makes an argument that "clutch" does exist. Sort of. It's not the most convincing article, but there's no question about David Ortiz. The data/method isn't presented, and even still it seems it has been approached with reticence. As he writes: ...

Bill James Investigates Whether Clutch Hitting Exists
Published 12/1/2007 by Andrew Beaton at Hot Foot
In a special to si.com, sabermetrics guru Bill James tackles the issue on whether or not clutch hitting truly exists. James discusses his criteria for clutch and what it’s made of: 1. The score, 2. The runners on base, 3. The outs, 4. The inning, 5. The opposition, 6. The standings, 7. The calendar. He then discusses that he created a system that involves those seven factors and rated MLB players performances in those “clutch” opportunities. He shows and ...

Bill James must have been watching waaaay too much Sportscenter...
Published 12/2/2007 by eriz at Fire Jay Mariotti
Because there is no other explanation for this piece of trash he penned for Sports Illustrated. As most people know, Bill James is the legendary Baseball Statistician who helped revolutionize the way fans, teams and (some, but not many) journalists look at the game ...

Hit the Clutch! Nady & Bay? Naw..
Published 12/2/2007 by Pirate Blues at Pittsburgh Pirates Bucco Blog
... Bill James had a wonderful article at Sports Illustrated wherein he talked about clutch hitting. James noted that over the years clutch hitting had been a myth of sorts because nobody could ever prove it existed. Yet, anyone who watched a baseball game could seemingly tell you when there was a clutch hit. ...

Mr. Clutch
Published 12/4/2007 by justgary at SportsFilter
... to get into that. I am willing to look at the data and see what they have to tell us, but I want to keep at arms' length any judgments about the character of the athletes. Sports talk show hosts may be comfortable doing that, but that's their job, it's not mine. This discussion has been fouled up for a long time, and my only goal is to straighten it out just a little bit. An article by Bill James from the upcoming Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008. Read Story.

Searching for Mr. Clutch
Published 12/11/2007 by Dan Agonistes at Dan Agonistes
... I'm sure many of you read the recent (SI calls it "provocative") piece by Bill James on Sports Illustrated.com titled "Mr. Clutch: Big Papi, Chipper, Pujols come through when it counts". I was reminded of the piece when I found my copy of the ...

Random Ortiz
Published 12/11/2007 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
... finds a lot lacking in Bill James latest Sports Illustrated article on clutch hitting. Fox: First and foremost, the article seems to promote the idea that after the now famous study titled "Do Clutch Hitters Exist?" published in the 1977 Baseball Research Journal by Dick Cramer, that little to no work has been done on the subject of clutch hitting and that what has been done has had an in-grained bias. Quite to the contrary, the topic has been the subject of almost continual debate with a variety of studies published over the years as documented on Cyril Morong's fine site. ...

Fernando Tatis Proving Late And Close Ability
Published 6/1/2008 by Dave Doyle at The Mets Report
... the game and plays the game the right way. I think that rubs off on a lot of players. They see his energy and intensity and want to match that. I know that Tatis has been able to succeed in “late and close” situations, defined as the seventh inning or later with any of the following conditions: score tied. one team leading by a run, or with the tying run on base, at the plate, or on deck. I’m not so sure if we can call Tatis’ hitting “clutch” yet. Bill James wrote a good column for Sports Illustrated about clutch hitting last November. His conclusion is that there are players ...