05-24-2010, 10:45 PM
<!--quoteo(post=98167:date=May 24 2010, 09:38 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ May 24 2010, 09:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=98159:date=May 24 2010, 09:21 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ May 24 2010, 09:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->It's this simple. If you believe in coldness you can't reasonably <i>not </i>believe in hotness. Rami is swinging a cold bat. It's not statistically his <i>turn</i> to swing a cold bat. The vast array of things that all contribute to good hitting are not coming together. It's mechanical...or between his ears...or whatever. Swinging a hot bat...and swinging it in clutch situations is when those things <i>are</i> coming together.
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He's hitting in the .100s because he isn't seeing the ball well or his bat is slow or his timing is off or there's a hitch in his swing or his skills are in massive decline (or something like that). If you'd like to define that as "cold," then that's fine. It has nothing to do with "clutch" (or lack thereof), though.
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I think it has a lot to do with it. I think it's simply the inverse example. Everything is wrong. That's unusual. Everything being right is unusual too. When everything's right, he's a guy that you have confidence in. I don't think you find examples of guys that are hitting .160 but are still reliable with 2 on and 2 out in the bottom of the ninth. A clutch guy is a guy that's performing. Couple that with the confidence that performing breeds an a guy is gonna be cooler in a pressure situation.
A career .230 hitter probably hit somewhere near .230 for any given stretch of time. But he also probably raked at a .320 clip for a couple of months somewhere in a career and stats won't tell you what caused that.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
He's hitting in the .100s because he isn't seeing the ball well or his bat is slow or his timing is off or there's a hitch in his swing or his skills are in massive decline (or something like that). If you'd like to define that as "cold," then that's fine. It has nothing to do with "clutch" (or lack thereof), though.
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I think it has a lot to do with it. I think it's simply the inverse example. Everything is wrong. That's unusual. Everything being right is unusual too. When everything's right, he's a guy that you have confidence in. I don't think you find examples of guys that are hitting .160 but are still reliable with 2 on and 2 out in the bottom of the ninth. A clutch guy is a guy that's performing. Couple that with the confidence that performing breeds an a guy is gonna be cooler in a pressure situation.