which indicates the average number of runs the pitcher allows per game. "WHIP" represents walks and hits per innings pitched. The chief difference is softball games last seven innings while baseball goes nine. Other statistics include "HBP" for hit by pitch, or the number of batters...
it's what Prospectus is all about: furthering our understanding of baseball, the same asSABR, orRetrosheet, or in a weird way, the bartender who insists on telling me stories of howBob Gibsonwould pitch to the score. I'm probably the least stat-heady member of the authors...
That plus the projected 59 walks per 162 games and you can see the HBP is a big part of the added OBP. So if he only gets hit 5 times then I think we will see a .040 drop in his OBP. Going from .370 to .330 is a big Jim down and that is with no other regressio...