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Post by cardsfan643 on Jul 6, 2007 17:03:37 GMT -5
Look at Pujols' stats against Lidge. That's a pretty small sample size, and it was also while Pujols was going through his ridiculous slump. The point is, if it's that important of a situation with a closer that is historically shaky mentally, I would take the best hitter in the league over Lidge. No matter what their past history is. |
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Post by seaver41 on Jul 6, 2007 19:03:20 GMT -5
It's enough to go by and Pujols couldn't have been in a slump all 17 of those plate appearances.
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Post by diehardmetsfan on Jul 6, 2007 22:14:48 GMT -5
Look at Pujols' stats against Lidge. That's a pretty small sample size, and it was also while Pujols was going through his ridiculous slump. The point is, if it's that important of a situation with a closer that is historically shaky mentally, I would take the best hitter in the league over Lidge. No matter what their past history is. pujols is a cardinal and that's prob why ur sayin it, which i hav no problem wit cause i'd do the same with the mets, but lidge has the advantage and that dosent change b/c of 1 big home run... |
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Post by cardsfan643 on Jul 7, 2007 1:07:57 GMT -5
I'm not just saying because of one big homerun. Pujols has at least one or two walkoffs that I remember off hand.
As for Pujols in his slump, it is true that he was in a slump for all of them. We were playing the Astros right around the time that Pujols reached over .300, but Lidge wasn't the closer.
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Post by seaver41 on Jul 7, 2007 1:08:55 GMT -5
So every time Pujols has faced Lidge in his career he has been in a slump?
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Post by cardsfan643 on Jul 7, 2007 1:32:18 GMT -5
Those were the career stats? I thought those were this season's. They were kind of hard to understand because they weren't lined up.
Anyway, I would take Pujols over Lidge in that situation. I'm not saying that this is the best match up of any batter vs. pitcher at any time, I just think that in that situation, Pujols (the definition of clutch) would beat Lidge (who is a good pitcher, but has been shaky mentally).
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