South Side Sox · Oct 31, 2017
The clutchest White Sox performances of 2017
One byproduct of the Ricky’s Boys Don’t Quit era: All of the comebacks create opportunities to pick up WPA along the way.
If you’re unfamiliar with Win Probability Added, the name of the stat does most of the explaining. At any point, the Sox have a probability of winning the game reflected by a percentage based the situation (score, innings, runners, outs, etc.). WPA measures how much a hitter adds to (or subtracts) from the team’s chances of winning a game based on the outcome of his plate appearances.
With so many late rallies and walk-offs, three different individual games outranked the top clutch performance from 2016.