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Managers are also prone to place their second-best hitter fifth in the order, which makes it difficult for the pitcher to intentionally walk a clean up batter. An effective clean up hitter is generally more concerned with his slugging average than his overall batting average, so baseball fans...
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There’s no question that Byron Buxton is one of the most dynamic players in baseball, with a captivating power-speed combo that helps him excel at the plate and in the field. But he’s played more than 92 MLB games in a season just once in his career, i
man. If you don't let a pitcher pitch, you're never building him up. You're never letting him struggle. I say this all the time: 'Let me get my ass kicked.' They understand that dog in me. I want to be out there."For most starters in 2022, the dog with...
all of baseball in home runs (25), RBIs (62), on-base percentage (.437) and slugging (.712) -- and that's before you factor in the Yankees' record (48-21) and how eager fans should be to see him in action in Texas after he missed the 2023 All-Star Game with a toe sprain....
1)Retro baseballsTeam baseballs with a throwback look. I’ve seen the catalog and this is not all of them (there’s an especially sweet San Diego Padres one), but this is a good sample of what’s available at the moment. I bought the Minnesota Twins one the first day it came in my...
In baseball, OPS stands for "On-base Plus Slugging." It's a statistic used to measure a baseball player's offensive performance. The formula for OPS is OPS = OBP + SLG:OBP (On-Base Percentage): This measures how frequently a batter reaches base. It's calculated as (Hits + Walks + ...
Look at those shifts from month to month, particularly in the last number, which is slugging percentage. He is good, then bad. Then great, then OK. Last season he put four good-to-great months together and almost won the MVP award. In 2022, he hit anywhere from .193 in a month to...
used data science to improve its player recruitment. The team's management identified that a player's on-base percentage and slugging percentage statistics were more informative indicators of offensive success than the statistics traditionally emphasized in baseball, such as a player's batting ...