Talk:The Art of Platooning: How it Could Effectively be Employed by the Blue Jays/@comment-101832-20060315114543

If you mean in terms of momentum, well, you could look at it the other way too. If a left-handed hitter, for example, struggles against left-handed pitching, that negative momentum could carry over to when he faces right-handed pitching. Of course, it&quot;s debatable to what extent momentum even exists, so both sides could be rendered moot.

If you mean in terms of overall statistics, well yeah, a player&quot;s counting stats will decrease, but his rate stats will improve. In the end, the team should only be concerned with the overall production from that position. If using a platoon yields a greater output than using one player, it should certainly be employed.