Lately, I’ve talked some about lineup construction and the traditional approach to filling out the batting order and an optimized lineup. Perhaps the biggest difference is that most teams bat their best hitter third while the optimized lineup would have that hitter batting second or fourth. The optimized lineup is the result of thousands of [...]
1964 TOPPS GIANTS ROY MCMILLAN If I asked you to name the worst-hitting season by a Mets player with at least 400 PA, you would probably name someone like Rey Ordonez or Doug Flynn or Bud Harrelson. Those are all good guesses but not the right answer. An inspired selection would be Rafael Santana, who [...]