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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, January 11, 2022Finding Switch-Hitters Who Should Stop Switch-Hitting
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Posted: January 11, 2022 at 02:24 PM | 7 comment(s)
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1. JJ1986 Posted: January 11, 2022 at 02:52 PM (#6060645)The same is largely true for the other side. In 2021, RHB v RHP had a wOBA of 308 and only Edman, Mondesi and Leury Garcia were below that although a few others are close.
I know Ian Happ's 233/312/382 is not really what you want in the lineup but the average LvL was 228/301/355 in 2021. Fair enough, 2021 was a tough year ... but Happ was still at 213/301/352 which was league average.
Which makes me wonder how those z-scores were calculated. Happ is terrible relative to the average RHB v LHP ... but that doesn't mean he should give up switch-hitting, it means the Cubs should find a better RHB to platoon him with than himself. I suspect we have confused two different questions: "should Happ be in the lineup vs LHP?" vs "can Happ hit LHP better from the right or left side?" Anyway, I see no reason to think that Happ or Moncada will hit LHP better from the left side than they do from the right.
Just a reminder ... almost nobody (maybe Ruth, maybe Williams, maybe Bonds) hit RHP better than Jim Thome -- career 292/426/608. Versus LHP he was pretty uninteresting -- 238/340/427, a 270 point OPS difference. HoFer Jim Thome hit LHP about as well as the average RHB hit the average RHP. That's actually pretty good of course but it's not HoF-worthy.
What a strange way to spell "knuckleballers."
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