Hypothetical baseball question

[PowerRangers]

If you're a play-off contending team and you need to win all of the 3 games approaching your last series of the year to make it, would you prefer to play (at home) the worst team in the league against whom you are 1-7 or the best team in the league against whom you are 7-1?

[BobOjedaFan]

so far 9 votes for the worst team, though youre asking a forum of people who actually understand variance

[Vyse]

Worst question ever?

[NT!]

well there might actually be a circumstance where you'd want to play the best team, if you were two games back of them and wanted to control your own destiny or something. but yeah, retarded question.

[armPitt]

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well there might actually be a circumstance where you'd want to play the best team, if you were two games back of them and wanted to control your own destiny or something. but yeah, retarded question.

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This is what I was thinking, maybe. But all else equal...worst team...?

[mason55]

wwhat if the best team's pitchers all throw a secret japanese pitch that your players have been secretly training all their lives to hit but no one else knows about it.

and the worst team has 3 players from a country boycotted by your best hitters so your best hitters will boycott all games against the worst team.


answer that one, smart guy.

[BobOjedaFan]

Better Hypothetical Question....

Youre a major league baseball manager. Your leadoff batter who ahs 60 steals this year has just doubled vs a pitcher with an ERA over 5 and your 2 hitter is batting over .300 and is adepth to hitting to the rigth side.

Do you...

[armPitt]

hypothetical hypothetical baseball question:

you wouldn't be referring to bunting Luis Castillo even though he's doing ridiculously well and any single will score Jose Reyes, would you? Pros of Castillo hitting a guy with an ERA above 5:

- extra base hit (= run + RISP)
- single (= run)
- ground ball to right side (= sac bunt)
- fly ball (= sac bunt)

cons:

- ground ball, left side (= out + maybe reyes can make it since hes like flash gordon = sac bunt, maybe...)
- ground ball pitcher (= out)
- K (= out) and even this isn't bad, after having 2 strikes, let reyes steal 3rd.

my observation: let him swing away, willie.

[Borgland]

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any single will score Jose Reyes


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No. An infield single wouldnt.

edit- like a bunt or high chopper

[armPitt]

damnit you got me.

how foolish of me to overlook that (very plausible) possibility with castillo.

thats the same result as a walk, probably. unless reyes teleports to third.