Monday, May 06, 2013
Free-for-all batting order
A reader on Bill's site suggested:
the manager is free to send hitters out in any sequence he wishes, so long as all nine players bat before any one player gets an additional turn. In other words, the scoreboard could feature an indifferently ordered list of nine names that'd be scratched through one-by-one until they were all gone, at which point the scratches would vanish and the skipper would be again free to bat whomever in whatever new order... None on, two outs? Send the pitcher up in the first inning... Man on third, two outs? You could bat your star or save him for a hopefully more lucrative chance down the road?
I remember Patriot offering this alternative, but only for the DH, that you can use him at will, as long as he doesn't bat more often than anyone else has at that point. Everyone else remains fixed in order. You may actually WANT to put say Pujols at DH and not 1B, figuring that taking a chance of being able to leverage Pujols for 3 PA, maybe 4, is better than guaranteeing 4, maybe 5 PA, and his glove on the field.
I love this kinds of ideas. It's really the closer-usage conundrum the manager faces, holding back your better player for an opportunity that may never come. You're hoping for a base/out Leverage Index (LI) of say 1.6 or 2.1, and instead you are getting 1.2 and 1.4, so you wait, until all that's left at the end is to use him with an LI of 0.7.
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