http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/06/02/how-detracting-are-the-double-plays/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/06/02/how-detracting-are-the-double-plays/#comment-13346 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:40:01 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=21187#comment-13346 For individual players the sample size is probably too small, especially over a third of a season, so it’s hard to know whether GIDPs are luck (BABIP and sequencing) or clutch (if it exists)i.e., lack of clutch or whatever. But since we’re saying that more GIDPs are inevitable for high-OBP contact hitters, it would be interesting to apply a WPA-weighted measure in place of plain old OBP which counts strikeouts the same as double plays, in order to find out how bad those inevitable DPs are (or in other words, is being a low -K% contact hitter a good thing or not).

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