What is your favorite obscure baseball stat?

[byronscott4ever]

Wouldn't it be 0 every team get shut out at least once a year, I would think?

Duh, should've figured that out

 

[RogerMarisCollector61]

Wouldn't it be 0 every team get shut out at least once a year, I would think?

Bingo

Good catch, can't believe I didn't think of that

 

[MaineMule]

My son and I were talking the other day and I came up with a stat that I would be curious if it were ever tabulated- "wins reversed."

Example- Cliff Lee pitches 8 complete innings and when he leaves the game Phils are leading Mets 3-2. Mets score 2 against Papelbon in bottom of 9th (sorry Pap) for walkoff win. Papelbon gets loss and blown save and Lee was the unfortunate recipient of a "wins reversed" (or some other made up term).

Whatya think??

Which pitcher has had the most wins taken from them in a season due to an ineffective bull-pen?

 

[smapdi]

I think you could figure that out partly from blown saves, though not every "win reversed" is a save situation, and BS's aren't tied to the starter, and I think a guy can get a BS and a win for the same game, so it would take a lot of research to filter out all contingencies. But you're right, that would be an interesting stat. Every pitcher has some hard-luck W-L records, it would be interesting to see a metric that could possibly project how many more wins they had if they could've just gotten a little more support from the bullpen. Then again, they play all 9 innings, and leaving up 1 run with 3 outs to go is never guaranteed. Stats projecting what might have been are frowned upon by serious seamheads, but they can be fun.

 

[MaineMule]

I think you could figure that out partly from blown saves, though not every "win reversed" is a save situation, and BS's aren't tied to the starter, and I think a guy can get a BS and a win for the same game, so it would take a lot of research to filter out all contingencies. But you're right, that would be an interesting stat. Every pitcher has some hard-luck W-L records, it would be interesting to see a metric that could possibly project how many more wins they had if they could've just gotten a little more support from the bullpen. Then again, they play all 9 innings, and leaving up 1 run with 3 outs to go is never guaranteed. Stats projecting what might have been are frowned upon by serious seamheads, but they can be fun.

...it certainly would correlate to "blown saves" and like with blown saves, you could have multiple "wins reversed" in a game. Think of poor Felix Hernandex with a lousy M's bull-pen (and also lousy run support I know). How many other wins could he have had if his bull-pen did not blow his wins?

 

[nosterbor]

#1
On September 2, 1996, Mike Greenwell of Boston had nine runs batted in during a ten inning game. This is the record for most runs batted in where one player accounted for ALL of a team's RBIs.

#2
AB / RBI Ratio
All Time Leaders


Name Percent (Raw) Rank
Babe Ruth 26.35 (26.3484) 1
Lou Gehrig 24.91 (24.9094) 2
Hank Greenberg 24.57 (24.5715) 3
Ted Williams 23.86 (23.8645) 4
Jimmie Foxx 23.63 (23.6292) 5
Mark McGwire 22.85 (22.8544) 6
Joe DiMaggio 22.53 (22.5334) 7
Hack Wilson 22.33 (22.3319) 8
Manny Ramirez 22.21 (22.2101) 9
Ryan Howard 22.19 (22.1889) 10
Sam Thompson 21.82 (21.8246) 11
Juan Gonzalez 21.42 (21.4155) 12
Albert Belle 21.17 (21.1686) 13

 

[Dazed]

Can't remember this actully being called by an umpire.

7.05 Each runner including the batter-runner may, without liability to be put out,
advance-

Three bases, if a fielder deliberately touches a fair ball with his cap, mask or any
part of his uniform detached from its proper place on his person. The ball is in play
and the batter may advance to home base at his peril;