You can credit Tony LaRussa for revolutionizing the role of the closer in Major League Baseball. Until LaRussa played the role of MLB’s first statistics enthusiast, baseball was merely a game of scoring more runs than the other team. LaRussa used a plethora of statistics to determine the likelihood of particular hitters to achieve success in certain situations, the likelihood of a particular pitcher to have success against a given hitter, and even the odds of a hitter’s success in regard to his handedness...
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