BATTING: Left-right splits
Aug 20 2012
Okay, quick quiz: You’re in a weekly H2H league and you need a second baseman to give you lots of production. You can choose either Robinson Canó or Jose Altuve.
Easy, right? Cano has a .909 OPS to Altuve’s 783!
But to quote Quick Draw (no relation to Dr. Phil) McGraw, “Just hold on thar!”
What if we also tell you that the Yankees and the Astros will both be facing four lefthanders and two righties this week?
Altuve’s OPS versus southpaws is higher than his overall, at .934, while Cano’s OPS versus lefties is ... .638.
We spend a lot of time thinking and talking about “splits,” the various subsets of player performance based on situations.
Of all these, the most basic is lefty-righty. Many batters have pronounced...
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