New Mets manager Mickey Callaway is not a believer in playing the "hot hand," though he is open to using a platoon in certain situations, he said last week on The 7 Line's Orange & Blue Thing podcast.
"Hot handedness is something that is probably just an illusion," the 42-year-old Callaway explained. "It's such a small sample size that it might not make much sense to do because a guy is going to get cold at some point. You want to keep them all as hot as possible."
According to Callaway, instead of defaulting to putting a hitter in the lineup simply because he is hitting well, he intends to use analytics to be sure hitters are facing pitchers they're best set up to face.