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The Evolution of Baseball's Perfect Lineup
The evolution of baseball’s perfect lineup
This image is AI-generated.On July 11, 1999, Arizona resident Gylene Hoyle won $1 million in a radio contest by correctly picking Bell to hit a home run in the sixth inning against the Oakland A’s. But as more players with a mix of elite skills get moved elsewhere, teams now tend to place greater focus on one particular attribute here, asking less of the role in terms of speed and other facets of the game. With those regressions, we can see how a player with the exact same breakdown of skills might bat in two very different places in the order, depending on whether the manager was thinking about the traditional rules of lineup construction or basing their decisions on more analytics-driven research.
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