After crunching the numbers and looking at the data, does it still make sense?
Let’s find out.
I was talking to a pitching coach in the St. Louis Cardinals organization last week (please don’t hate me), and he told me that one of the hardest things to do at a major league level was to put guys away.
“Those guys get paid too,” he told me. “So if you get to two strikes or ahead on a guy, you feel good about your chances. And the numbers probably show that, but you’d be surprised how many times an at-bat can go either way, even if you’ve got two strikes on the guy.