Farmer1906 said:
txags92 said:
Farmer1906 said:
txags92 said:
EastCoastAgNc said:
On 790, Dusty advocating that the way to fix Diaz struggles against lefties is to let him sit on the bench...compared him to a newly drafted QB needing to sit on the bench for a year to learn.
You see, the way to play any game better is not to play. So if you are a quarterback and want to get better at throwing the ball to a receiver, for god's sake don't go throw the ball more to receivers. You need to stand on the sideline and watch somebody else try to throw the ball to a receiver and miss. Likewise, if you are a batter and don't hit lefties well, the last thing you want to do is get in the batters box and face some lefties. What you need to do is sit on the bench and watch somebody else bat below the Mendoza line.
From what I can find stat wise, Diaz is hitting something like .213 against lefties and Maldy is batting a scorching .218 against them. Clearly we can't give up that production to get Diaz a few more looks.
On-field results are that Mlady is better vs lefties.
But moving forward if Yainer keeps hitting the ball like he has, he'll his about equally well vs LHP & RHP. We're just looking at a small sample here of about 12-13 games worth of plate appearances.
Are you seeing different stats than I am? If Maldy is hitting .218 against lefties and Diaz is hitting .213, then no, Maldy is not better against lefties by any significant amount. But the stats I was trying to look up were not totally clear, so if he is hitting much better than .218 against lefties, then ignore me.
I don't really judge how well someone is based on their BA alone because it ignores a lot of really important pieces of information.
Maldy vs LHP
.218 BA
.295 OBP
.491 SLG
.786 OPS
114 wRC+
Diaz vs LHP
.175 BA
.213 OBP
.263 SLG
.476 OPS
27 wRC+
But if you believe the batted ball metrics then Diaz is about as unlucky as you can get vs LHP.
And the frustrating part is how many times we see Dusty ignore stats and advanced stats to suit his biases.
Bagwell and Reggie both often discuss how they believe the Astros lean into analytics too much and ignore gut feels. Dusty is quick to point to analytics when they support his bias and ignores them when they don't support his bias, which means he just goes with his gut (bias) and points to analytics when it is supporting to claim he uses both gut and analytics.
Where were analytics when we were screaming how much better Hunter pitched to Diaz? Where were analytics when they supported Yordan higher in the batting order? Where were analytics in reference to starting Chaz? Where were analytics in reference to all the times Diaz is on the correct side of the numbers vs Maldy?
We all have biases and use "damn statistics" to back up our biases, Dusty is just on the wrong side of statistics so many times it is hypocritical when he rolls them out in his argument once a decade to justify something
