In fact it would be pretty difficult to label someone clutch who hasn’t had 2 or 3 years worth of AB’s in whatever situation you decide to go with. All you could do there is say that someone has come through with some clutch hits early in his career but it would be premature to label the player clutch yet, excepting perhaps some monster clutch hits in the pennant race and post season over more than just one year.

So if clutch exists, tell us. Who’s clutch? Let’s get some examples going. Some guys who are currently active so we can continue to follow them and see if they keep it up. Guys who have had a few years and appear to be good examples of players who have displayed this character trait so far. First guesses, not second guesses.

Guys on other teams. Guy’s in the AL, NL across the spectrum of Major League baseball.

Whatever reasonable criteria anyone wants to select and a performance that is 10-15% better in those situations.

Doesn’t have to be a big hitter either. Give us a handful of guys who aren’t good hitters but raise their game in those situations and a handful of guys who are good hitters and do the same.

After all if the character trait exists, it should be easy to identify 10 guys bare minimum who posses it who are both in the Majors long enough to have a certain track record and young enough that they can be expected to get plenty of more opportunities.

You select the criteria and the threshold of performance above the norm.

Don’t just tell us who isn’t clutch, tell us who is, and most importantly who’s going to continue to be.

Any takers?

Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that clutch existed. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.

Donal says:
September 14, 2011 at 12:56 pm
what you need to do is find actual evidence clutch exists.

Lies taste like victory.

So the rumors go, Collins was brought in for 2 years during the ‘transition’. That probably would have become a real distraction about mid season next year.

But those types of things don’t interest you guys especially when you need proof that non-visible things like clutch and carbon monoxide do exist.

Francesa just said now the Mets will have about 120 million dollar payroll and that’s what Alderson, Depo, & Ricciardi were asking for. Now they got it and many good GMs have won with that payroll so now here’s their chance.

Now let’s go get that pitching we’ve been talking about.

The judge in the clawback case has dismissed all but 2 counts against the Wilpons and Katz.

Can we please resign Reyes now?

Seriously, they must have seen this as a good chance of happening since the minority investor deal fell through at the 11th hour.