Josh Willingham is on the verge of history
by cat daddy3000 on Jul 8, 2009 3:02 PM EDT
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The List: RBI < (HR x 2) By Dave Sheinin | July 8, 2009
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/baseball-insider/2009/07/rbi.html
"To pull it off, you need to hit almost exclusively solo home runs (all 10 of Willingham's are of the solo variety), and you need to perform poorly with runners in scoring position (Willingham: .180/.293/.220)."
This may be part of my indifference to Hammer......His normal stats don't look bad, but he's not contributing when it counts...
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I’m not a baseball player, but I’ve got to believe that batting with RISP is little more than confidence. Hopefully as the Nats get better, they play better when it counts.
Then again, I may be entirely off.
by John Quinn on Jul 9, 2009 9:56 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I think it's not letting the pressure get to you and concentrating. Maybe that is confidence.
I definitely remember being terrified of striking out in first year little league. These guys should have grown out of that by now…
Dunn's bat, Nyjer Morgan's speed, skills, Dukes' arm, bat, that's an OF...(sorry, Hammer!) - EC
by cat daddy3000 on Jul 9, 2009 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Willingham is pressing
He has been all year in those situations.
"What you know is often the enemy of what you can learn" Bill James
by PhDBrian on Jul 10, 2009 4:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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