Hm conflicted here because personally I think anyone who doesn’t understand the difference between leverage index and win probability added but posts about it nonetheless is an idiot BUT anything that dispels the jUdGe BaD nOt ClUtcH narrative is also fine by me
Leverage index doesn’t have to do with the outcome of an event it only is concerned with the situation: down 2, 8th inning, 1 runner on, 2-2 count, etc. that situation is definitely higher leverage than the same situation in the third inning but it’s not hard to think of a lot of higher leverage situations either. And it doesn’t care that it’s 2025 Judge at the plate either, would be the same for Martin Maldonado up there. tl;dr people (not you the twitter guy) assume anything they don’t understand is wrong and biased
This popped up on my instagram feed but love that teams are embracing it minor league going to make the charge
Apparently this was a "ball on the first pitch" type of deal and sounds like the betting activity looked fishy
Obviously that guardians pitcher is an all time dumbass if the investigation proves to be true but we should also ask why people can bet on what the first pitch of an inning will be. What a plague on society man