How does one define “clutch?”
Sometimes, we just know it when we see it. You know, the ‘ol eye test that everyone loves so much. It sure seemed like Derek Jeter, Big Papi, Randy Johnson and Mariano Rivera always came through when it mattered most, and I don’t need some newfangled nerdy metric to tell us what clutch is!
The good news is that we have a newfangled (well, it’s newfangled in that it didn’t exist for more than a century of baseball but it’s actually been around for a while now) nerdy metric to tell us what clutch is.