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Originally Posted by endgame
This portion of your statement sways me to believe it's a problem; trusting that this is the case and not your perception that it's consistently.
Beyond that, personally, I wouldn't always be adverse to intentional walks in these situations. For example, power hitter with proven home run record and only one out, followed by a contact groundball hitter: walk the power hitter and look for a double play out of the inning. (Assume Mr. Power is of average speed. Assume Mr. Contact is not a huge HR hitter.)
Other scenarios might prevail as well, and doubtless I occupy a minority philosophy in this situation. However, as I said, anything intentional that is also consistently occurring is an issue.
And legacy bugs should only appear if Markus still envisions something a certain, and apparently, incorrect way.
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I disagree, as I'd gladly pitch to David Ortiz with one guy on, up 3, even if my grandma were on deck.
In terms of consistency, I didnt play out/watch many regular season games, but in the 11 games of the playoffs, it happened 3 times...not to mention that even though "favor L/R matchups" was one step away from "always", it seemed to put lefty's in for righty's, and vise-versa about half the time.