How Power Hitting Lineups Can Benefit from Diversification

Or: Eight Big Dumpers walk into a bar—is their ideal drinking buddy Jake Cronenworth or Riley Greene?

We recently introduced the Oyster Simulator, a tool for holistically evaluating the expected run production of lineups that takes the interactions between different hitters within a lineup into account in a way that individual statistics do not. In today’s piece, we use our simulator to explore whether power-hitting lineups benefit more from doubling do…