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Oct 9, 2024
12:46:43pm

Socrates Johnson All-American

Playoffs are a step up in pitching quality from the regular season. Feels like

enough to explain it. You could take the same stats by batters against pitchers that have faced Ohtani in the playoffs and compare to the stats of pitchers faced during September as a whole. I'm guessing pitcher quality explains almost 100% of this. But maybe not?

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Ohtani in September: .393 batting average, .458 OBP, .766 Slugging, 1.225 OPS

Corn Pop

12:33pm

Just maybe ...

Dan

12:38pm

They also played in September and Ohtani went 6-11. Not really enough of a

califcougar

12:49pm

Two weeks ago, Ohtani went 6/11 with 3 2B and 2 BB against the same Padres. That's a 1.433 OPS.

Colorado

12:56pm

He was getting absolute softballs in Sep. from the likes of MIA and LAA

COUGND

12:38pm

Ohtani went 1 for 8, with 3 k's vs the Angels in September

BYUheaven

12:47pm

Sure, let's do MIA now too and see where the totals fall.

COUGND

12:51pm

coming from an Angels fan, it was a joke.

BYUheaven

1:03pm

RE: coming from an Angels fan, it was a joke.

COUGND

1:09pm

Playoffs are a step up in pitching quality from the regular season. Feels like

Socrates Johnson

12:46pm

It's a tiny sample size so far for Ohtani, but no, pitching quality alone would

Corn Pop

12:55pm

I'm sorry, but this is insane. His numbers in 13 ABs is 100% meaningless.

Scratch

1:23pm

"It's a tiny sample size so far for Ohtani..."

Corn Pop

1:30pm

Shohei had 26 ABs in March and has 13 in the postseason. Those numbers are

Scratch

12:52pm

I mean, at a certain point it’s on these guys to perform. How much you wanna

RevolutionDeathsquad

1:00pm

Get rid of two wild cards, DS is 7 games, LCS is 7 games, WS is 7 games. The end

Corn Pop

1:07pm

I agree 100% with that. But not because Shohei has had 13 ABs with below-

Scratch

1:24pm

Except we are starting to get some data overall. The Braves' bats were dead

Corn Pop

2:10pm

Yeah, if the overall stats support that narrative then there may be an argument

Scratch

2:22pm

The working theory from last year, not my theory but from a national guy,

Corn Pop

2:36pm

Have two wild card teams, they play one game, winner plays div winner, the other

Dan

1:45pm

I would probably give it 1 or 2 more postseasons to see if the numbers stay

1:16pm

It's 3 games. I'm sure there were stretches in September that looked similar to

LifeLongLakerFan

2:27pm

You could say just two games. In game 1 he had an HR and another hit

Dan

2:29pm

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