Comments on: Phillies Win on a Walk http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/phillies-win-on-a-walk/ Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bryan http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/phillies-win-on-a-walk/#comment-32146 bryan Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:08:57 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/phillies-win-on-a-walk/#comment-32146 this comment is unrelated to this post, but when i try to register for the forum, it says registration has been disabled by the administrator, can you allow it? this comment is unrelated to this post, but when i try to register for the forum, it says registration has been disabled by the administrator, can you allow it?

]]> By: David Appelman http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/phillies-win-on-a-walk/#comment-32143 David Appelman Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:47:28 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/phillies-win-on-a-walk/#comment-32143 To answer my own question, double plays happen 5.4% of the time with a man on first and third, and 6.4% of the time with the bases loaded, so loading the bases doesn't really help your double play cause all that much. If you have your mind set on walking Howard, it would be worth it to at least try and pitch around Howard instead of intentionally walking him. Maybe you get him to strike out considering his very high strikeout rate and if you do walk him, you're not really that much worse off. To answer my own question, double plays happen 5.4% of the time with a man on first and third, and 6.4% of the time with the bases loaded, so loading the bases doesn’t really help your double play cause all that much.

If you have your mind set on walking Howard, it would be worth it to at least try and pitch around Howard instead of intentionally walking him. Maybe you get him to strike out considering his very high strikeout rate and if you do walk him, you’re not really that much worse off.

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