re: Baseball Spring Scrimmage Batting Stats 2022

Feel free to be more specific

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Against the best college pitching in the world

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The world, you say!

Beloso pushing for that DH/part time 1B role?

Dugas is gonna have to trade jerseys with Willie Safford

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I'm ready to bench Berry and Morgan when they go 1-8 the opening weekend.

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bold move.

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First, you dismiss RBIs. But at least you used the term “generally.

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The point about RBI is firmly objective. You have decades of games & hundreds of thousands of at bats that form a large mound of data in which that information is pulled. I wasn’t smart enough to form that point, but I’ve studied it and it checks out.

I use “generally” because with such a large sample size, there are bound to be outliers. This usually comes with small sample sizes, but on the occasion a hitter is much better hitter with RISP than he is without, I’ll leave that small room for correction.

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and ignore the context I gave.

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That’s the thing, you didn’t give any context

This is what you said, and it requires another question to be asked to understand the context

is simply a product of pitchers going after one while being more careful with the other.

That question is “why”.

Why are they going after one more than the other?

McManus is a perceived threat. Milazzo isn’t


And yes McManus hasn’t hit as well this spring. But he’s also doing what Johnson wants. He wants competitive at bats. He wants these guys to be selective & draw walks.

McManus OBP .294

Milazzo OBP .125

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The point about RBI is firmly objective. You have decades of games & hundreds of thousands of at bats that form a large mound of data in which that information is pulled. I wasn’t smart enough to form that point, but I’ve studied it and it checks out.

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You used the word "generally" for a reason, Lester. Not just because of outliers but because there's more to the story. You know that when analyzing individual vs individual, you have the ability to use your eyes and a ton of other information to come to a conclusion. You're being knowingly obtuse so you don't have to address the point I made about how pitchers are approaching each batter. They've found a way to get McManus out without giving him much to hit. But even in those situations, he's coming up short.

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And yes McManus hasn’t hit as well this spring. But he’s also doing what Johnson wants. He wants competitive at bats. He wants these guys to be selective & draw walks.

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Milazzo is having competitive ABs. And that doesn't always mean walks. What Jay wants for most isn't what he wants from Milazzo. That's not debatable since Jay has said exactly that. Production for Milazzo is going to be different than most others. McManus isn't producing right now at the standard for him. Period. When he gets to the plate, simply walking shouldn't be the high point.

Has anyone put these Spring stats together for the pitchers yet?