Yahoo Sports lists the Top Batters on each team for each box score. Both the winning and the losing team gets to have a player highlighted.I guess this is mainly for fantasy purposes.
But I found this entry to be a bit strange.
When Dallas Braden threw his perfect game on Sunday, Yahoo Sports dutifully picked a top batter for Tampa.
They picked Jason Bartlett... who like the rest of the team went 0-3.
So what was the thought process? Was his 0-3 a productive 0-3?
Were they happy he didn't go 0-4?
He DID hit a line drive that was caught... were they giving him credit for actually hitting the ball hard AT someone?
Was it just that he was the lead off batter?
If anyone should have been the performer of the game it should have been Gabe Kapler who fouled off a bunch of pitches in the 6th.
Either way, I doubt there were a lot of people who own Jason Barlett in their fantasy league who looked at his line in the box score and said "YES!"
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