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From: [email protected] (Neal Traven)
Subject: Re: Braves Pitching UpdateDIR
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Dave Naehring X2079 P7630 ([email protected]) wrote:
: In article [email protected], [email protected] (Sherri Nichols) writes:
: >Every single piece of evidence we can find points to Major League Baseball
: >being 50% offense, 50% defense. A run scored is just as important as a run
: >prevented.
: >
: This certainly passes the "common sense test" for me, but is there any
: statistical evidence to say what percent of defense is pitching and what
: percent is fielding? I'd really like to know. BTW, Sherri, thanks for
: the DA data I find it fascinating.
One of the chapters in Palmer and Thorn's 'Hidden Game' is titled
'Pitching is 44% of Baseball,' implying that fielding is 6%. How do
they determine that? Beats me -- it's been a long, long time since I
read it.
One also has to separate offense into batting and baserunning, with the
split probably somewhere around 49.5% and 0.5%.
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