{"id":389,"date":"2007-06-21T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/a-baseball-idea"},"modified":"2007-06-21T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T22:16:07","slug":"a-baseball-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"A Baseball Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Baseball the ideal line up starts with the players most likely to get on base and advance and then follows with the power hitters. \u00a0 This model for drawing up a line up is almost universal.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/582699055\/P8270610JPG.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8270610.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1327\/582699055_e32bd2093d_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>What it fails to take into account however is that the opposing pitcher often takes a few batters to settle down and start throwing well.\u00a0 If the manager adjusted his lineup to take this anomaly into account, by batting one of his power hitters first,  his team might end up with more hits.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/583035586\/P4300022JPG.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P4300022.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1268\/583035586_7d3e50a570_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact he could only make the adjustment against pitchers who have shown a tendency to give up early hits.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just thinking outside the box.\u00a0 In this case the batters box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Baseball the ideal line up starts with the players most likely to get on base and advance and then follows with the power hitters. \u00a0 This model for drawing up a line up is almost universal. What it fails to take into account however is that the opposing pitcher often takes a few batters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-6h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}