{"id":262,"date":"2008-12-10T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T18:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2008-12-10T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T18:40:44","slug":"batting-order-by-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Batting Order by The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Playing-Percentages-Baseball\/dp\/1597971294\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1228934411&#038;sr=8-5\">The Book<\/a>&#8216;s batting-order advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYour three best hitters should bat somewhere in the #1, #2, and #4 slots. Your fourth- and fifth-best hitters should occupy the #3 and #5 slots. The #1 and #2 slots will have players with more walks than those in the #4 and #5 slots. From slot #6 through #9, put the players in descending order of quality.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Book admits a slight advantage in batting the pitcher eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book&#8216;s batting-order advice: Your three best hitters should bat somewhere in the #1, #2, and #4 slots. Your fourth- and fifth-best hitters should occupy the #3 and #5 slots. The #1 and #2 slots will have players with more walks than those in the #4 and #5 slots. From slot #6 through #9, put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Batting Order by The Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}