It's Easy to Lie with Statistics, It's Easier to Lie without Statistics

"There's an interesting fight going on in baseball about whether clutch hitting exists: whether a player can hit better in the ninth inning when there are two runs on, whether he can be a better player when the game is on the line. And once again, there have been countless studies done on it, and not one of them can find any statistical evidence that any person is capable of lifting his game in such moments.

Yet people continue to believe, and they continue to get angry that anyone would suggest that such a thing doesn't exist. It's like, 'I know it exists because I've seen it.'"

Joe Posnanski, interviewed by Kathryn Schulz (via)