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Showing posts with label Stolen Bases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stolen Bases. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Quantifying Stolen Bases

Found these Sabermetric stats interesting:
Studying baseball over the course of multiple seasons has led us to believe that each extra base a runner adds, whether by stolen base or otherwise, creates on average 0.2 runs above what would have been scored otherwise. ... On the flip side, a player who is thrown out on the bases costs his team 0.5 runs below what would have been scored otherwise.