03-26-2010, 11:39 PM
<!--quoteo(post=84661:date=Mar 26 2010, 04:02 PM:name=Fella)-->QUOTE (Fella @ Mar 26 2010, 04:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I have a feeling Russell is going to be the guy Lou never uses this year. Lou is dumb and uses Grabow against lefties despite the fact that he is better against righties. Lou always has one guy he is afraid to use. Most of last year it was Snowman. I expect it to be Russell this year.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is sort of a pet peeve of mine. People never seem to realize that how Grabow does against lefties and righties is only HALF the equation. Grabow might be a guy who performs the same against righties and lefties, but the guys he is facing might be terrible against lefties. If Lou puts Grabow in to face a lefty, it might not be that he thinks Grabow is lights out against them (he has the SAME stats in front of him as we do), but rather because he either wants to turn the the around (in which case Grabow loses no effectiveness), or because he thinks the guy is worse against a lefty than a righty.
A guy who is equally effective against both sides of the plate, who is not being used as a loogy, actually has an advantage.
This is sort of a pet peeve of mine. People never seem to realize that how Grabow does against lefties and righties is only HALF the equation. Grabow might be a guy who performs the same against righties and lefties, but the guys he is facing might be terrible against lefties. If Lou puts Grabow in to face a lefty, it might not be that he thinks Grabow is lights out against them (he has the SAME stats in front of him as we do), but rather because he either wants to turn the the around (in which case Grabow loses no effectiveness), or because he thinks the guy is worse against a lefty than a righty.
A guy who is equally effective against both sides of the plate, who is not being used as a loogy, actually has an advantage.
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