Like A-Rod batting 8th in the lineup?
2006-10-08 09:13:38 · 13 answers · asked by Why_so_serious? 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
I'm no expert, but there are some general conventions that seem to be followed:
- The first batting spot is usually for someone pretty fast and/or someone who can get on base pretty consistently
- The 4th batting spot is commonly referred to as the "cleanup" spot, usually someone with pretty good slugging numbers. He's "cleanup" because, if everyone else before him gets on base, it's his job to "clean up" or clear off the bases
- The higher up you are in the batting order, the more hacks you're going to get. Thought exercise: let's say you have 32 team at-bats (ABs) per game. That means 1-5 have 4 ABs, 6-9 only have 3 ABs. If you have many games where you're around 32 team ABs, then your 1-5 hitters are going to have quite a few more plate appearances than the 6-9 hitters. So of course you'll want your most productive players to get more opportunities. Of course, actual number of ABs vary, but this is just a little thought experiment to help you get the idea.
Of course, I'm no expert, so this could all be wrong. And of course, there are exceptions and variations. And, managers sometimes like to mix up batting order, perhaps to help a team get out of a slump, or perhaps just to try something else. And of course, if your batters are strong up and down the lineup (e.g., Yankees during the season), maybe you'll try to bury some good hitters in the later part of the batting order to give you good opportunities to score throughout the game.
2006-10-08 09:26:26 · answer #1 · answered by Questioner 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and no. When baseball started generally the first batter or what you call lead off batter would be a fast runner and able to bunt to get on. Your second and third hitters are as well to drive the lead off runner around the bases. Your fourth or your clean up hitter is usually your best hitter to drive more than one run in per at bat. Home runs to be brief!!!! Then the est of your lineup is usually not as strong.. In A Rod's case the Yankees are so deep in their lineup that the really don't have a bad hitter.
2006-10-08 13:24:59 · answer #2 · answered by BeverageMan3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thoroughly incorrect in case you seem on the crimson sox hitters from some years in the past their huge form 7 hitter i've got faith he develop into on the time gained the AL batting identify. invoice Meuller. Then there is likewise on base proportion a hitter would possibly no longer have a great batting uncomplicated yet he has a good on OBP so which you will hit him first or 9th and use him to deliver the precise of the lineup back around additionally. a good touch hitter you may desire to bat third or 4th so as that he can force in runs. it gets extra in intensity than that whether it could take a protracted time to describe all of it.
2016-10-02 02:18:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and no.
typically the best hitters are in the 3-4-5 spots in the lineup, and the players behind them usually aren't as good/slumping. leadoff is reserved for a high on base%, contact, fast hitter.
a note that the tigers 7-8-9 hitters in the postseason each had 25+ HRs in the regular season.
A-Rod is just in a bad slump but he'll have a nice long winter to fine tune his stroke.
so it depends overall on the manager and his style.
2006-10-08 11:29:04 · answer #4 · answered by stop12345now 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, it is actually more of a reflection of your skills and what the team needs.
but, YES A-Rod was dropped in the lineup to relieve some of the pressure and shake things up a bit.
2006-10-08 09:17:25 · answer #5 · answered by baseballfan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it dosent matter that much unlike a-rod usually a batter batting 8th 7th 6th will due good depending on his attitude ( like if he makes silly error's or just looks like he dosent want to play will determin how good or bad he does
2006-10-08 13:07:49 · answer #6 · answered by mdelli51 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it does not, the power hitters are like 3rd - 4th . The hitters that will make it 2 first base is 1-3 . it really depends on the team.
2006-10-08 09:14:45 · answer #7 · answered by Roger R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not always. Managers like to play the numbers game sometimes and will with good match-ups.
2006-10-08 09:16:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends how u think about it, sometime 8th is said to be the second clean up batter
2006-10-08 09:15:06 · answer #9 · answered by tarheelsdawg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the time it does, because the better you are the closer you'll be to the front of the line-up,and the worse you are the closer to the end.
2006-10-08 11:51:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋