If you are batting someone 9th who is your team leader in HR's with a .600 OBP you need to quit coaching and take up knitting.
Not really talking about lineup positions. Just selecting top 9 batters to put in lineup.
If you are batting someone 9th who is your team leader in HR's with a .600 OBP you need to quit coaching and take up knitting.
Your post was an analogy where you were deciding about whether to insert your leading HR hitter with a .600 OBP into the lineup. I assumed that if a coach were on the fence about whether to bat someone or not, it's logical to think that they would be batting last, otherwise, they would already be in the lineup, right?Not really talking about lineup positions. Just selecting top 9 batters to put in lineup.
Your post was an analogy where you were deciding about whether to insert your leading HR hitter with a .600 OBP into the lineup. I assumed that if a coach were on the fence about whether to bat someone or not, it's logical to think that they would be batting last, otherwise, they would already be in the lineup, right?
But clearly I made my post in jest because there is no scenario ever where a coach would be deciding whether or not to insert his leading HR hitter with a .600 OBP into the lineup.
Well, I'm a classic "moneyball" guy and Oakland A's fan, so I'll take you up on that...
First off, the vast majority of all games are won with a "big inning"...in fact, in softball, often times the winning team will score more runs in one inning than the losing team does in the whole game....so therefore it behooves us to think "big inning" than even contemplating a "productive out" to advance a runner one base.
Now, getting back to your "out is an out" thing....I take the meaning of that to be "an out is frigging important!" - not that all outs are equal.
But outs are accidental for the most part...if an out happens to advance a runner or score a run...great, but a clean hit would have been better!
Lastly, your girls are right about not buying into your "2 for you and 1 for the team" philosophy....it doesn't make sense on many levels....
Better to use the "pizza box" strategy
-No strikes, protect a small (ham and pineapple)
-1 strike, protect a medium (pepperoni and mushroom)
-2 strikes, you gotta protect the large vegitarion !!!!
Go A's !