This Texas guy getting a save yesterday made me realize how many bad stats baseball has. Or not so much the stats themselves, but how stats are graded. Feel free to add to this list or argue mine.
1. Sac Fly- It's not the sac fly I have the problem with. But can someone explain why you can hit a fly ball that scores a run and not get charged with an at bat, yet a ground ball that scores a run is charged to your batting average?
2. Errors- If an outfielder obviously misplayed a fly ball he should be charged with an error! I am pretty sure the official scorers can in fact charge an error if the ball was not touched. This should be done alot more. Don't tell that to Manny though. He would average an error a game if scorers graded that.
3. Running to 1st after missed 3rd strike- Let me get this straight. You just swung at an awful pitch the catcher could not catch, yet we will reward you by giving you the opportunity to reach. All rules have some kind of meaning behind them. I have still yet to figure this one out.
4. WHIP- This is a great tool IMO, but can we please add hit by pitches to the equation? A pitcher could go 3-0 to a given batter, throw the next one in the batter's ear, and not get charged a walk. I would hit alot more batters knowing this.
1. Sac Fly- It's not the sac fly I have the problem with. But can someone explain why you can hit a fly ball that scores a run and not get charged with an at bat, yet a ground ball that scores a run is charged to your batting average?
2. Errors- If an outfielder obviously misplayed a fly ball he should be charged with an error! I am pretty sure the official scorers can in fact charge an error if the ball was not touched. This should be done alot more. Don't tell that to Manny though. He would average an error a game if scorers graded that.
3. Running to 1st after missed 3rd strike- Let me get this straight. You just swung at an awful pitch the catcher could not catch, yet we will reward you by giving you the opportunity to reach. All rules have some kind of meaning behind them. I have still yet to figure this one out.
4. WHIP- This is a great tool IMO, but can we please add hit by pitches to the equation? A pitcher could go 3-0 to a given batter, throw the next one in the batter's ear, and not get charged a walk. I would hit alot more batters knowing this.
