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Felipe Alou: Is He Afraid of the Walk?
November 13, 2002 - Shaun
II'm inclined to argue that hitters won't change their approach for a manager by the time their in the Major Leagues. Maybe young players will listen to Alou and become less disciplined, but I don't think a veteran team like the Giants will be any worse off when it comes to drawing walks. For the most part, I think you can tell what kind of approach a hitter takes before he's in the big leagues and the manager has little to do with how often his team walks. Approach is developed well before a player becomes a mid- to high-level minor leaguer, so I think approach has little to do with who a player's major league manager is.
Banner Years
November 5, 2002 - Shaun
Intuitively it seems to make since that a player who had a banner year in his fourth year would have a better fifth year than a player who had a banner year followed by three average years. It seems like the player who broke out during the fourth year learned something from the previous three years. While it seems like a player who has a banner year followed by three average years had a fluke season early on but opponents made adjustments and he couldn't counter-adjust. I think you have to take age into consideration when doing a study like this.
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