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To evaluate player and team performance

Henry Chadwick

Statistics that attempt to provide an improved measure of a player's performance

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OPS Signup and view all the answers

K/9IP, K/BB, HR/9, WHIP, and OOPS Signup and view all the answers

To evaluate a pitcher's performance Signup and view all the answers

ERA Signup and view all the answers

Because it depends on the era in which the player played Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Overview of Baseball Statistics

Baseball statistics are important for evaluating player and team performance.
Statistics have been kept since the creation of the National League and American League, now part of Major League Baseball.
Henry Chadwick started keeping records of player achievements in the 19th century.
Sabermetrics and comparative statistics attempt to provide an improved measure of a player's performance and contributions to his team.
Comprehensive, historical baseball statistics were difficult for the average fan to access until 1951.
A few core statistics have been traditionally referenced throughout modern baseball, such as batting average, RBI, and home runs.
Some sabermetric statistics have entered the mainstream baseball world that measure a batter's overall performance, including on-base plus slugging (OPS).
Some useful pitcher statistics include K/9IP, K/BB, HR/9, WHIP, and OOPS.
Defense-independent pitching statistics, including defense-independent ERA (dERA), have been used to evaluate a pitcher's performance.
Commonly used baseball statistics include batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, stolen bases, ERA, strikeouts, and fielding percentage.
It is difficult to determine quantitatively what is considered to be a "good" value in a certain statistical category.
The official site of Major League Baseball provides full-season statistics for each player.