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Baseball statistics the random anon who clicked from /b/ and stayed.
All this talk about MVP's, Cy Youngs and voting has got me thinking as to what numbers people actually use to determine value as a baseball player. I always hated Wins and Saves because they are meaningless, and I hate batting average because it's so misleading. So what do you use to evaluate a players worth? OPS, VORP, Runs created, what?
>> HKK !h7MHU9L/Oo
BA, OBP, SLG, OPS+, RC

Sometimes I'll thrown in Plate Appearances because it's important to see how many chances a player had to produce.
>> Anonymous
How do they calculate VORP? Is it subjective in any way? It seems like theres some kind of bias thrown in when I look at the numbers.
>> knownastheE
>>476465
Postion Players: OPS and various Sabermetric statistical analysis (which validates Pujols as NL MVP)
Pitchers: WHIP, ERA, SO and IP (so the CY Youngs were right this year)
>> knownastheE !!cKZLT82jUW0
>>476475
It can be very subjective cause it can discredit a player who plays exceptional first base and can hit: while an outfielder who doesnt cover the field properly, but hits will probably have a higher VORP
>> Anonymous
Wins, Saves and to some extent RBI are worthless.

I have a man-crush on WHIP for pitchers, and Doubles for hitters.
>> Kilgamayan !2BklmILFiE
>>476497

Which is why WARP1 is better.
>> Anonymous
>>476542
Win.

Anyway, you should evaluate players as throroughly as possible, but if you're looking for JUST ONE stat that is easy to find and freely available. . .

Hitting Rate: wOBA
Offensive Rate: EqA
Hitting Total: Runs Created
Offensive Postion Value: VORP
Defense: +/-
Total: WARP
>> Anonymous
>>476688
As far as pitching. . .

Rate: tRA
Counting: pRAA
Total: WARP