Who Should Bat Third?
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jhamrahi posted 6/26/2008 from www.baseballdigestdaily.com [flag] |
By Rob McQuown...Widely regarded as the Nationals best hitter, Ryan Zimmerman batted third every game for the Nationals in 2007. Likewise, all of Albert Pujols' games started came in the coveted 3-spot in the Cardinals lineup. Yet, do these batting order decisions make sense statistically?
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phanatic74 +1Guzman is their best hitter by far . . . . . -
brandini What is the rationale behind hitting the pitcher #8? Only the Cards seem to be regularily doing so. I have toyed with the idea that this presents a superior hitter in the #9 slot and subsequently leads to more instances with a runner on for the ELITE hitters. Is that so?
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Mr. Cook Throws A Shutout!
Published 7/2/2008 by Rob McQuown at Baseball Digest Daily
I couldn't let Aaron Cook's performance yesterday go unheralded. He went the distance. In Colorado.
Holding the Padres (who hit .270/.340/.420 in June ... good
for an NL team) to five (5) hits and zero (0) runs. It was his first
complete game shutout of his career. But that's not the strange
thing. Cook did this in just 79 pitches.
Going back to 1988, only 4 other shutouts have had 79 or fewer pitches, and only Jon Lieber's 1-hitter in 2001 beat it (78 pitches). ...
