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Old 10-30-2014, 08:24 PM   #2613
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Originally Posted by cartman View Post
Another thing from that particular play that would be interesting to put a number to would be to see if the Royals had a better chance of him running to home, or trying to rely on the next batter to bring him in. With all of the advanced metrics out there, I'm sure someone has already started work on the different probabilities.

I wish there was a replay showing when Gordon went into full speed as I'd be curious to see if it was one of those regular plays where the batter runs 75% "knowing" it's a single at best and then needs to turn on the jets once the ball skips past the defender.
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