An analysis of the Baseball Almanac suggests that any batting average above .300 is considered excellent. Many batter fall below this level, but are still considered effective hitters. However, if a hitter’s batting average falls to .200 or below, then the batter is often considered to be a...
Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is an attempt by the sabermetric baseball community to summarize a player’s total contributions to their team in one statistic.
StatCornerimplemented a modelfor capturing framing and Baseball Prospectusfollowed last Marchwith an effort of their own. Efforts vary and you can easily construct a measure of extra strikes using data on FanGraphs or Baseball Savant, but the BP model, for example, takes into account the probabili...