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Friday Graph: Defense And Pitching

Friday Graph: Defense And Pitching

By Chris Quick on August 14, 2009

Run prevention is a hugely important team skill in baseball. Baseball highlights will often be composed of those who can hit the longest home runs, but having a top defensive team can do wonders for a team’s record. For example, take the Giants. Collectively as a team the Giants can’t hit their way out of [...]

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Bullpen Numbers for Your Consideration

By Chris Quick on August 15, 2008

It’s a post on everyone’s favorite topic: The Bullpen! I’ve ranked our relievers by pLI — a player’s average leverage index for all game events — and I’ve included FIP as well. FIP stands for ‘Fielding Independent Pitching’ and it’s a measure that removes fielding — hence the Fielding Independent part of FIP — and [...]

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