Re: Who bats 9th?
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It's retarded. Bat your worst player 9th.
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you don't always bat your worst hitter 9th, saying this is naive. it depends on the makeup of your lineup and what you have as far as power and speed. the OP has a point and it is very effective if the team has the correct perssonnel to do so though that its not always the case as well.
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Obviously if you want to alternate L/R better or something, you might move him up a spot, but having a second "table-setter" is not an optimal strategy. Lineup construction has more or less been solved. "Optimal Lineups" are essentially:
#1. Traditional Leadoff Hitter is usually oka here, you want to stick your best hitter that doesn't hti a ton of homers. You can sacrifice some OBP for speed.
2-9 order your best hitters by 1.8OBP+SLG
Doesn't do much, of course. Maybe 15 runs over a season. Still, that's about $2 million...
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I'd wager ordering players by a more OBP-heavy version of OPS (maybe 3*OBP+SLG) would have a stronger correlation with run production.
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