Baseball Logic?
So my Diamondbacks have fallen of the literal cliff.
We have had injuries, and a epic slump by our best player. But we finally got Jake Lamb back. Who is a lefty batter. They did not start him, do to a left handed pitcher pitching. I understand that when a left handed pitcher pitches. They pitch from the far left rubber, which starts the ball behind the left handed batter, affecting visibility for hair longer, but you never see people sub out right handed batters with right handed pitchers on the mound.
My point is when a right handed pitcher pitches, we would start from the far right side of the rubber, which the ball would start behind the right handed batters. So relatively the same issue, but not much is made of the right handed pitchers. Is it that so many more people are right handed, or is it that this is discrimination against left handed people? any thoughts
I get that you have a better chance against a pitcher who pitches from the opposite hand, but if you're a good enough player, you wouldn't sit just because the pitcher throws the same way you bat. At the bottom of the 9th you might put in a pinch hitter who is optimized to the pitcher, but to keep the player out of the lineup to start seems like something else is going on. Are they just going to sit him every time there's a lefty pitching? What about all their other lefties?
They seem to try and not have them in the line up, and you never saw them do this to bonds or griffey jr. I just think sometimes they meddle too much with a game, and then get inside the lefties head that they can't hit a left handed pitcher. But in that case why have right handed batters face right handed pitchers.
Right?! Back in the day people just batted. They didn't worry about the 1% difference that it might make. Maybe the announcer noted that it was a bit of a disadvantage, but they weren't taking people out of the lineup. Oh, well. Things change and we get to reminisce about the "good old day."
On talk radio here, they were talking about how analytics have completely taken out the fact that people get hot, and that momentum is real. They think that people are just parts, and will always preform at the same level.
I think it's the relative rarity of left handedness. It happens in other sports too. Rafael Nadal's uncle taught Rafa to play tennis left handed as a kid even though he's naturally right handed for the advantage. I think at this level of professional sport, coaches and players take any small advantage they can get.
And don't worry about your Diamondbacks. That division is so awful right now anyone can win it!
Wow, I know they will bounce back, when things fall as hard as they do there has to be a little pop. But it would just suck to be a lefty then.
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I think it's a little discrimination /: what do you think? Regards from Venezuela❤️
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It looks more like discrimination because the rules favours just the right handed