Hunches

Giants are mile-high after win

Tyler Walker is the SF closer. At the bottom of the article, Felipe Alou says, He's our closer right now. I have to give him that opportunity."

What sent my scrambling to the SFGate was a quote I read in the Rototimes MLB Player News section. The blurb quotes Alou saying, "there's something about him" regarding Walker.

As I said here and more recently here, Alou chose his closer based on the very un-sabremetrically method of a hunch based on physical appearance. And, unsurprisingly, he's been OK.

While the Jamesians lay claim to the last three outs of the games being no more vital than any other important outs that do not end the game, real life demonstrates that getting the outs which ential more pressure are different. What the Jamesian need to acknowledge is they are unable to quantify it.


But the spell of numbers seems too hard to resist. or maybe it is the vested interest each of these statheads have invested in being right that they are unable to change course.