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10-02-2016, 08:48 PM
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Sitting out for the batting title...
What is your opinion?
Colorado Rockies second-baseman LeMahieu edged out Daniel Murphy (who is injured) by .001 - .348 to .347 while sitting out the last two games of the season - and four of the last five. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...le-sitting-out Weiss (LeMahieu's manager) said Friday that if Murphy was healthy, he would have let LeMahieu play and let the two players contest the batting title on the field. Does the fact that he hit .391 at home and .303 on the road make any difference in your thoughts (his last games of the season were on the road)? Last edited by Baseball Rarities; 10-29-2016 at 12:38 PM. 
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10-02-2016, 08:58 PM
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Lame. If Ted Williams can play two meaningless games rather than sit out to ensure his .400, this young man can play to earn (or lose) his title.
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10-02-2016, 09:58 PM
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It's fair, Murphy would not have played if he was healthy (meaningless game for his team) so why should DJ have to?
BTW, this was the manager's decision,LeMahieu wanted to play. besides, batting avg is such a silly arbitrary stat that the award has very little meaning anymore.
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10-03-2016, 12:22 AM
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10-03-2016, 08:14 AM
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10-03-2016, 09:29 AM
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there was a great tweet by Brian Kenny yesterday that sums up my opinion pretty well:
"NL Batting Title on the line today: wRC+ 1. Votto 159 2. Murphy 156 3. Freeman 154 .. Walt Weiss can play anyone he likes.."
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10-03-2016, 06:03 PM
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10-03-2016, 10:25 AM
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10-03-2016, 10:58 AM
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I get both sides, Weiss sees it as a plus for the org on a mediocre year, DJ wants to "win it" (and I would agree if Murphy was also playing, but with him out I don't think that it's a vice to sit DJ)
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10-03-2016, 03:00 PM
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If he did want to play it doesn't sound like he was very insistent about it. Seems more like he was relieved that Weiss made the decision.
"Part of me wants to be out there competing, doing what I've been doing all year. The other part of me -- there's something really special out there, and I'm going to let Walt take care of that."
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10-25-2016, 10:28 AM
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As someone who doesn't study stats, I think batting average is very important. As for sitting out, I don't really have an opinion one way or the other right now.
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