Circling the Bases: Perez the Right Buttons

TRENDING?

We're at the point of the season when people tend to forget to look at recent levels of performance and instead they look just at the numbers a player has posted this season and think they've got a handle on what's going on (just such a player is Josh Hamilton who I discussed in the July 24th Circling the Bases piece). Sometimes players start out unbelievably hot (aka Hamilton), and then slow down to the point that people think they are lousy. Or, as often happens, people simply don't notice the true slowdown because they are so giddy about the hot start that they almost go into “sleep mode” with the player.

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