When you talk about sports you always have this dilemma of how to dissect the unmeasurable intangibles. Things like clutch and leadership don’t hold as much value in the face of today’s data revolution. At times people overrate these things. Case in point with the Ronald Torreyes fans and Austin Romine truthers of the past. When you’re talking about guys like Kobe Bryant and Derek Jeter – guys who wore their championship pedigree like it was latched on to their soul – you realize clutch and leadership are very real.
You can’t numerically define these attributes but I think I have a decent understanding of how to really show which guys exhibit them the most.