Skeptics will say this is because the tigers are bad at making productive outs and getting runners home on sacrifices before there are two outs. I say both things can be true but tigers are clearly one of the best teams with two outs somehow.
Skeptics will say this is because the tigers are bad at making productive outs and getting runners home on sacrifices before there are two outs. I say both things can be true but tigers are clearly one of the best teams with two outs somehow.
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I’m glad you posted this as I am always thinking in my head when we leave a runner stranded on third that we never push the run across. Needed this reality check.
I don’t think OPS is a great metric to judge this on. For example, if there were just a single runner on third then a single, double, and triple has the same result in terms of scoring that runner. A team that scores the run one time with a triple and gets out the other two times would have a similar OPS to the team that singles every single time and scores all three of the runners. I would rather see the % of times that runner scores.