One of the most heated debates among baseball fans today is over the existence and importance of clutch hitting. I get why it’s a controversial issue. On the one hand, the history of our game is written by baseball heroes; those great players who rose to the occasion when their team’s needed a hit to win or a homerun to stay alive, and delivered in the clutch. Hitting well when it matters most is dramatic, it’s fun, and it sticks in our memories for our whole lives. Really, a lot of how we experience the game comes down to clutch hits.
Searching for Randy Winn
