75% skill, 20% opportunity, 5% between the ears..just like what I said in the post which initiated this thread Obviously those are arbitrary numbers just used to show what I think is important. Name me a clutch player who sucked in "non-clutch" situations..
They call the one's who they remember having success at a particular moment clutch and forget about the times clutch didn't get the job done?.No there is no such thing as clutch.
You might want to rethink your definition of clutch or at least come up with a better example. Howie has batted .238 over 8 post season and his .636 OPS is 120 points LOWER than his career OPS.Ask Howie Kendrick, who hit key home runs in the clutch that led to my Nationals winning the World Series last year. Other than Anthony Rendon, there was no one else on the team that I would have rather had up in those situations.
Something like that. Most tends to think about Derek Jeter as clutch and as a Yankee fan I sure did love watching him play. But he had a few playoff series where he has some seriously unclutch batting lines.They call the one's who they remember having success at a particular moment clutch and forget about the times clutch didn't get the job done?.
How about if we only focus on his time as a National, which given his injury in 2018, means that we only have the 2019 data to look at. If you only look at those numbers and the ring, I bet it looks much better.You might want to rethink your definition of clutch or at least come up with a better example. Howie has batted .238 over 8 post season and his .636 OPS is 120 points LOWER than his career OPS.
Also if you look at his career splits his worst stats come, "Close & Late" "2 outs RISP" and "Tie game". Man if all of Howie's professional ABs could have come in games where the score was more than 4 runs apart he'd be a freaking hall of famer. Dude hit a remarkable .353 in thos situations!
He clearly had some clutch hits against both STL where he won series MVP and against Houston, especially the HR. I don't think that makes him a clutch player.How about if we only focus on his time as a National, which given his injury in 2018, means that we only have the 2019 data to look at. If you only look at those numbers and the ring, I bet it looks much better.