The reality is that playoff batting averages are significantly LOWER than regular season. Here's a post from a guy online who looked into this a few years back.
Did some quick research, and this is actually a little harder to get at than I thought to find for all-time, but here's what I dug up for the last 10 years:
Regular Season vs Playoffs
2013 MLB Average (as of 10/6/13): .253 vs .239
2012: .254 vs .235
2011: .255 vs .252
2010: .257 vs .209
2009: .262 vs .241
2008: .264 vs .245
2007: .268 vs .233
2006: .269 vs .251
2005: .264 vs .254
2004: .266 vs .256
Looking at those numbers, obviously there's less variance for regular season averages due to much larger sample size (2430 regular season games vs ~35-40 postseason games per year), but for the last decade, batting averages tend to be about .20 points lower in the postseason than in the regular season.
So again -- stop the spin. Stop the excuses. Stop. Clayton STILL has a post-season problem.
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