re: Left Handed Pitchers

Nobody is arguing it isn’t good to have a bunch of lefties you can throw. They are arguing against the stupid point you and a couple others are still trying to make that we struggled against lefties. It isn’t even debatable, that’s a false statement

Jumping in very late to say 10-15 “points” better just means 1-1.5% better. If that’s not negligible over the course of an entire season then I don’t know what is.

I suck at math but I’m pretty sure that’s not even an extra hit per game.

You just refuse to quit. You are moving goal post, and now grasping at straws.

You, Pirate King, magician, double oh, and nicolastiger should all start a private chat together. You would probably fit in much better there.

You’re an idiot. Just STFU!!

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No matter how many times you say it, we hit worse against lefties. EVERBODY DOES. The difference was less this year than it is most years because we had a roster of major league hitters.

This is not a statistical anomaly. It's this way almost every year.

Left handed pitchers with average stuff perform better than right handed pitchers with average stuff on average.

I don't know how else to say it. Having a stable of left handed pitchers is good because teams don't hit lefties as well as righties most of the time.

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You are right, and I don’t think anyone is arguing against this. What they are arguing against is that “we struggled against LHP”. We didn’t.

Also, I think the SEC only stats, in which we hit BETTER against lefties, really undermines your point. Those are the good lefties. A lot of posters are saying that the stats this year show negligible differences between hitting LHP and RHP. They are probably right.