March 23, 2011
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How Significant Is Batting Order?
Most sabermetric analyses of batting order find that the most optimal batting order is worth between five and 15 runs over a typical batting order. Most of the time, people conclude that batting order isn't very important. But is that really the case? What other things are worth five to 15 runs? Are those things "significant?"
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