Collette Calls: Fact or Fluke?

Sample size is everything when doing player evaluations. Hot streaks that you hear tossed out by broadcasters are, at their root form, garbage. When you hear someone tell you that Will Rhymes is 0-for-15 against left-handed pitching in 2012, it does not mean that he will never get a hit against lefties this season. In the 2010 season, I remember a Sunday night game on ESPN when the Yankees were visiting the Dodgers. This would have been the same game when Joe Torre left Jonathan Broxton out there for somewhere around 50 pitches in a game that derailed the rest of his career with the Dodgers.

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