The Tao of Clutchiness

One of my writing heroes, Frank Deford, had a commentary on NPR the other day where he lamented the way that the baseball stats guys -- those “hard-hearted brutes” -- have “come out of the woodwork to make sure that we silly dreamers understand that numbers don’t lie, that clutch is all a random crap shoot. You can’t count on nobody no how.” He goes on …