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Re: Most Critical Stats for Building a Winning Team <FONT COLOR=BLACK><b>[</font>Reply to #<a href="read.pl?1-4277">4277</a>]</b>
2/20/07, 4:08pm
It's not that I'm saying teams shouldn't look for pitchers with low ERAs; that's exactly what they should do.  Run prevention is run prevention.  It seems somehow that you entirely missed my point.

I know many teams continue to pay through the nose for middle-of-the-road journeymen pitchers.  Guys who've had a history of being just that; average.

But when it comes down to analyzing how teams should find ways to limit runs against, isn't it obvious, or as you spelled it, "obviuos", that the pitchers with the lowest ERAs are exactly those pitchers who allow the fewest runs?  It should be.

ERA measures runs allowed per nine innings, so it had better correlate well with runs allowed. 

At least with the OPS statement, that stat is one of many that factor into the number of runs scored by teams.  OPS doesn't measure runs scored; it measures ability to get on base and ability to hit for power.  The author doesn't mention that teams should find the players that score the most runs to improve the number of runs a team scores each season.

 

[Newey from Cincinnati/OH]
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