Thank You, White Sox Fans
by Matt Swartz on Aug 27, 2010 6:11 AM CDT
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PrintA couple weeks ago, I posted a FanPost on this site asking for which lefty and switch-hitting sluggers on your team had regularly faced The Infield Shift, and which sluggers in your division your team regularly shifted against. I also posted the same information at the other 29 SBNation.com blogs. Overall, the 30 websites shocked me with how helpful they were, providing over 400 comments and an excellent list of hitters to run the tests that I needed to run.
I finally published the article at Baseball Prospectus today. It is called "The Clutch and The Shifted." I asked that this article not be subscription-only, so that everyone who helped me with it can read it. Feel free to email me about it you have any questions, and I'll do my best to reply if you comment here (though keeping up with 30 blogs was challenging!.
Anyway, as part of my study, I also got the list of right-handed sluggers who hit over 20 home runs at some point between 1993 and 2010, so I will post your teams' three lists below in case you were curious. Thank you again to all who helped.
LHB
Jim Thome
Robin Ventura
Harold Baines
SHB
Nick Swisher
Carl Everett
Jose Valentin
Ray Durham
RHB
Paul Konerko
Carlos Quentin
Jermaine Dye
Alexei Ramirez
Juan Uribe
Josh Fields
Joe Crede
Aaron Rowand
Carlos Lee
Magglio Ordonez
Frank Thomas
Albert Belle
Danny Tartabull
Julio Franco
Ron Karkovice
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Nice work. Thx for the (free) link.
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but the new guard is really making a difference at BP. you guys are good.
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