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Is this just Hally being Hally?
Posted:
Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:45 pmby mfsleeze
OK, is this just one of those crazy things or could you apply any logic to this?
*** TOP OF INNING 11 ***
0 T.Herr 4 Ground Out (2B) b-0
1 R.Williams 1 Ground Out (SS) b-0
2 M.Trillo 4 Single (LF) b-1
2 1 M.Lavalliere 2 Single (RF) 1-2 b-1
SUBSTITUTE P - Kent Tekulve
SUBSTITUTE PH- Ray Knight
2 12 R.Knight 4 Ground Out (2B) b-0
So a RHP is brought in and Knight, who has "avoid RHP" checked pinch hits for the $8MM Phil Bradley. Knight is listed as my PH vs LHP, but not vs RHP. Can this be explained?
Posted:
Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:19 amby Palanion
Without seeing the whole box score, it is hard to surmise, but is it possible that Knight was the best pinch hitter available because others had already been used?
Posted:
Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:43 amby apolivka
Ray Knight is "clutch" and Bradley is a "choker". HAL will do some fairly bad pinch hitting in clutch situations, which this was. Look at the "$" on their cards to see what I mean. Depending on if you really needed a hit right then, it actually wasn't a bad managerial decision. Knight gained 15 on base chances and Bradley lost 9, so a 24 OB chance swing is pretty significant especially considering they are all SINGLE**. A two star single more than likely wins the game for you, so HAL is a genius if that happens. If it doesn't happen, you probably get some 4 put in the outfield for Bradley, he boots the first thing that comes to him and you write Bernie a nastygram. :)
If you don't want Bradley to get pinch hit for, check the boxes on his card to not pinch hit for vs. lefties and righties. HAL _usually_ respects those. :)
Posted:
Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:52 pmby mfsleeze
You
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Posted:
Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:02 pmby apolivka
No prob. One option I wish you could put on this game is to turn off the clutch hitting entirely. Being "clutch" or a "choker" is based on such a small sample of at bats that most people think it is totally random. Ray Knight's status as this awesome clutch hitter is more than likely based on 10-15 plate appearances. He probably poked out 2 or 3 more hits in those situations than his normal tendencies would dictate and it totally changes his card, and thus how HAL treats him. But two or three hits--so what???
Real good hitters often get walked in those situations if there is a base open which makes their samples even smaller, usually.
It's been asked several times before, but please Bernie, make this optional.