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Are Managers Optimizing Their Best Relievers?
December 31, 2002 - Joe M
Is it reasonable to conclude that Rivera's LI could be somewhat deflated due to the fact that the Yankees have been consistant winners over the last few years, and therefore may have fewer late-inning high leverage situations available for their closer? I don't recall any mention in the previous article of a correlation between overall team LI and team W-L records (though I would expect really bad teams to have the lowest LI's for their relievers).
It would also be fun to see the converse of this study, i.e. what is the xFIP for pitchers with the highest LI? This would show us which pitchers are being tossed into high leverage situations without showing the performance to warrant that decision. I'm thinking our friend Six-digit Alfonseca would pop up on that list.
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