It always surprises me a little bit to see batter v pitcher match ups on the pages of BP. This is by no means a criticism of an excellent preview, I'm just wondering about the reasons for including these stats (ones I feel like we often learn to filter out when uttered as statistically insignificant broadcast filler during the regular season). Is their presence here meant to highlight a particular narrative that may emerge during/after tonight's game (Cabrera v Kuroda for instance)? Or is it meant to be an acknowledgement that, like clubhouse chemistry, previous experience is actually worth something even though we can't properly quantify it? Or maybe it's just an interesting factoid and I'm WAY over-thinking this!

nothing against nix, who sort of defines utility, but if nyy doubts so much the risk of playing nunez at ss, why have they kept him at that position during his minor league upbringing? they've nullified his usefulness/progress...yes, i've seen him afield; just sayin'