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Post by pablovi on Jul 9, 2016 16:19:37 GMT -5
You mean or runs scored by HR's? Where did you get that stat? I had to manually count the runs for the Cubs in June. There was an article on it May 8th otherwise I can't find anything.Also learned something searching for it.That the percentage of runs off hrs goes up in the playoffs from the regular season not down like some would think.Kind of debunks the small in the playoffs theory. The thing is hitting, like most of baseball, comes in cycles. You're hot, and you're cold... So if a cold strecht happens to hit you in a 7 game series, you need small ball to score, or contact hitting, OBP and speed. That exactly happened to the Cubs in the NLCS last year.
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Post by bbuck22 on Jul 9, 2016 16:23:12 GMT -5
The fact is since 1995 in the playoffs 15 of 21 seasons the runs off hrs rose during the playoffs.Which is unreal to me I too that it would be more small ball but it's a falacy.
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Post by pablovi on Jul 9, 2016 16:33:03 GMT -5
The fact is since 1995 in the playoffs 15 of 21 seasons the runs off hrs rose during the playoffs.Which is unreal to me I too that it would be more small ball but it's a falacy. Is not that most runs are scored via small ball, is just that if you cannot hit, and that happened to the Cubs last NLCS, you don't score, they had a few single run HR's and that's it, they couldn't advanced player when they got on base, etc... You need a more contact approach in those instances, and the FO noticed it, since they got two contact hitter with good OBP, Zobrist and Heyward. You can't rely on being just a power team, since it's too streaky.
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Post by bbuck22 on Jul 9, 2016 16:36:26 GMT -5
No no I am saying the average rose of runs off Hrs in the playoffs from tge regular season which means less small ball in the playoffs than regular seasons.Sorry but that's a fact and I am shocked I thought it drop in the playoffs with better pitching etc..
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Post by bbuck22 on Jul 9, 2016 16:38:51 GMT -5
Btw looking at it a little closer at the Cubs runs scored they seem the most consistant month to month is probably part of the reason they are still in 2nd as the rest of the teams are more violate and less consistant.Apr 140,May 138 June 136
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Post by bbuck22 on Jul 9, 2016 16:43:01 GMT -5
The fact is since 1995 in the playoffs 15 of 21 seasons the runs off hrs rose during the playoffs.Which is unreal to me I too that it would be more small ball but it's a falacy. Is not that most runs are scored via small ball, is just that if you cannot hit, and that happened to the Cubs last NLCS, you don't score, they had a few single run HR's and that's it, they couldn't advanced player when they got on base, etc... You need a more contact approach in those instances, and the FO noticed it, since they got two contact hitter with good OBP, Zobrist and Heyward. You can rely on being just a power team, since it's too streaky. What's funny last year during the season I don't think they were in the top 10 or right inside there via runs off homers.Its not all that the Cubs just plain ran into a buzz saw last year in the Mets.Now that being said they did need better contact and I agree that's why they picked up Zobrist and Heyward.
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