Quote:
Originally Posted by clydepepper
I'm just finishing a Roger Maris biography and I was amazed at how many times, during the chapters on the 1961 season, Johnny Blanchard was mentioned as having tied or won games with clutch hits.
I checked his 1961 splits on BBR, and, though they were impressive, I am far too lazy to cut and paste them in for you...but you are welcome to check them out your own selves:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...&year=1961&t=b
. |
I've attached Johnny Blanchard's '61 clutch stats. Pretty damned clutch: .365 BA and .827 slugging in "late and close" at bats with 7 Home Runs.
.347 BA and .674 slugging in "high leverage" at bats with 5 Home Runs.