Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 14, 2008
The Unclutch and the Clutch

The Numbers Guy provides a number of useful sports related links, and this paragraph:

In his last 16 postseason games, the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez has collected eight hits in 56 at bats, with one home run and one run batted in. In his last 13 postseason games, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has 10 hits in 51 at bats, with no home runs and five runs batted in. Rodriguez is famously un-clutch; Ortiz famously clutch. Yet both have had ups and downs in their playoff careers, which provide too small a sample size to reach definitive conclusions, as I wrote last month, and USA Today echoed. Now Ortiz, the hero of the 2004 playoffs, is beginning to experience what A-Rod has: doubts about his clutch abilities.

Anything can happen in 100 at bats, and even more anything can happen in 50.


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