In any circumstance? One major value of walks is that the average walk will involve more pitches than the single. Fowler is great at driving up pitch counts. Regardless, a single is worth more than a walk--there's close to 150% value of a single compared to a walk according to estimates.
Sometimes it doesn't matter. Anyways, my point is individually they are more valuable, but I prefer guys with high walk rates due to the fact that they are more consistent.
Really looking forward to this ending and the Stros getting their first ever batting champ. 9 points apart, but it feels so much closer. Altuve must be stressed as hell.
This. Hell, to preserve his batting title lead, I would consider sitting him down for the the final 4 games.
If Victor is playing, then win it on the field. Let's not get it the cheap way, because then nobody cares ( unless it's golf because the Frenchman who tried to win that major in the water was ridiculed for going for it ). Do it the right way Altuve, play!
Nobody cares? It's the opposite, actually - nobody will care how he won it like a week after the season ends. It's not really "cheap". Altuve has done more than enough. He has earned the batting title. He shouldn't have to get 230 hits to win it. He's already 40+ hits ahead of VMart. They aren't going to sit him 4 games, but if he lays another egg and loses more ground tonight, I wouldn't play him in all 3 of the final games. Give him at least one off.
Altuve has played 7 more games than Martinez & has 68 more PAs. It certainly wouldn't be unfair. I'm still hoping he can get 4 more doubles.
No he hasn't; no more than the Tigers have done enough to win the AL Central or the Cardinals in the NL Central. It's a 162-game season; if they want to sit him out and make VMart earn it, that's their right. But it would taint it, for sure - and I bet it wouldn't sit well with Altuve, either.
It's a 162 game season to win divisions. 162 games has literally nothing to do with batting titles. That's why there's a minimum requirement to be eligible for stat leaderboards. Poster above you just said Altuve has played 7 more games than VMart. I guess that makes it impossible for VMart to do enough to earn the batting title, by your measure.
That is silly to say. No batting champion has ever played 162 games. Bill Madlock won a batting title playing 82 games in 1981 (Pitt played 103 games in a strike shortened season). George Brett won a batting title playing 117 games in 1980 & Tony Gwynn had 116 in 1996. Jose Altuve has played in 95% of the team's 162 games already.
