A Question for the SABR Folks

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

John:

Maybe you or I would want to make a better impression in our first game than John Roach by pitching with our normal arm for the whole contest, but three things make me think he might have done it:

(1) It's not like he was in a tight contest where if he, all of a sudden, switch-pitched people would think he had gone over to the other side.
(2) We're talking about an era where what we might consider uncommon (like showing up to work drunk) was, in fact, de rigueur.
(3) You have never been the parent of a nineteen year old child. I have had two of them (so far). Sometimes there is no explanation for their behavior.

Kevin