Is this just Hally being Hally?

[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?

[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?

[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. :)

[mfsleeze]

You


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[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.