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The Return of the First Baseman

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By Christopher Barnett
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+ How baseball forgot first base--and why it's remembering it again. In his 2003 bestseller “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” Michael Lewis recounts how the 2002 Oakland Athletics replaced former American League MVP Jason Giambi with a little-known player named Scott Hatteberg.
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Filling Out the Batting Order: The Secret to Winning Lineups

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By Christopher Barnett
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+ The best lineups excel at two metrics: OBP and Chase%. Late in the classic baseball movie “The Natural” (1984), the grizzled manager of the New York Knights, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), is forced to remove star outfielder Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) from the Knights’ lineup. The camera zooms in on Fisher’s decision: he crosses out the name of Hobbs, who had been slated to hit third, and replaces him with another batter.
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It’s a Process: Why Plate-Discipline Ratio Is Key to Hitting Success

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By Christopher Barnett
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Hitter evaluation must account for process, not just outcomes. In the 1960s and 1970s, American psychiatrist Aaron Beck (1921-2021) developed a new kind of psychotherapy, which, as he saw it, would help patients deal with depression. At the core of Beck’s analysis was the idea that how people think affects how they function. Beck reasoned that, since the goal of therapy is to improve the lives of patients, the cultivation of better mental habits is essential to that end.
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