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MenacingMonk
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Hit up my last Dodger game of the season. Possibly the last time I see Kersh play live in a Dodgers uniform and he put up 10k. 
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PortCityProphet
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Yo yall think Judge gon take the triple crown? 
I would have said No Chance a few weeks ago but he’s got the HR and RBI locked down and he’s close in BA.Yo yall think Judge gon take the triple crown?
I’m gonna say no. Batting average is so hard to maintain.
My guess is Arraez holds on.
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Why you say that black man?
Everyone uses ops these days as no hitter hits for average anymore. It’s all about launch angles and getting on base without actually just hitting for contact to put the ball in play anymore.
Batting average isn’t a great stat.
But I’ll just speak to a connected topic here…
It is true that hitting for power is most correlated to scoring runs, and therefore winning. So over the course of a season, you’ll live with a lower batting average from a guy if he hits for power when he does make contact.
This is how a team like the Yankees is currently constructed. And the benefits are, well, you saw them in the 1st half of the season. They were practically unstoppable.
The risk is, hitting for power isn’t very stable. There’s a lot of variance involved so you can go quite a bit of time hitting the ball hard and not seeing the results on the field. You saw this with the Yankees in the 2nd half of the season.
Now the reason I point that out is because as we approach the postseason, teams face better pitching. Hitting for power is hard. It’s harder against good pitching. So if you’re a power hitting team prone to streaks, you might crush a team’s ace for 6 runs or you might be down 0-3 in a series very quickly…hoping for that power to impact the game.
This is why I think those batting average types, those contact hitters are still valuable. Because sometimes they can get on base. Yeah. That single to left is a “low OPS result” but it makes it harder on the opposing team and gives a significant boost to your streaky power hitters behind them.
I’ve been complaining for years now that the Yankees need more contact guys around their power guys. I mean how many times did I watch Gary Sanchez carry the Yankees in May or August only for him to go 2-18 in the 1st round of a playoff series?
So to me I still like batting average hitters. We need more of them in the game.
Goodness I miss Ichiro.
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Y'all still watching baseball?
You didnt hear? Baseball is dead
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PortCityProphet
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Yo this the closest challenge I've ever seen in this CHI/CLE game. Looked like the ball hit the glove a 1000000th of a second before the foot hit the bag 
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Pollock tripping over his own feet and eating shyt
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Pooping on your head :umad:
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