Ian Happ gets some undue grief, but none of it has made less sense to me than this idea that he isn’t clutch. Not only do the numbers just straight up disprove it, I feel like it’s been ESPECIALLY true this season (that he’s been just about the only “clutch” hitter, I mean).
He did it again just now in Milwaukee, crushing a two-run shot to un-break a tie:
Clutch. I’d say these numbers just improved:
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