Talk:Baseball statistics

I will settle for good :) I actually wrote "good" to start with & then decided to go the superlative.

Just to be a geek, I downloaded the stats and found that 45 out of 151 qualifiers for the BA championship in the majors hit .300 (53/258 with 300 PA, 69/430 with 100 PA). So I agree, "good", at least among regulars. Of course, if you're a bench player hitting .300 you probably won't be a bench player much longer.

Then again, in the American league in 1968, a batting average of .300 was unquestionably excellent. But that was then, and this is definitely an era of offense. User:Dze27

Quite. Yaz won the batting title three times without ever hitting better than 326.

As compared to, say, 1930, when (I think) there was only one regular in the NL who didn't hit .300. The 1890s were another odd period like this. User:RjLesch

See also : Baseball statistics

OBP

I have redefined OBP to "On-base percentage. (H + BB + HBP) divided by (AB + BB + HBP + SF)." This is the official definition of the statistic. MLB.com defines it as "On-Base Percentage (OBP): Divide the total number of hits plus Bases on Balls plus hits by Pitch BY at Bats plus Bases on Balls plus hit by Pitch plus Sacrifice Flies." I just put it in English, so to speak.--Djramey 14:31, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Individual statistics explanation pages

So many of these pages are stubs, and I don't feel there's too much to say about them. I propose merging them into Batting statistics, Pitching statistics, etc., with redirects. Gemini6Ice 2 July 2005 19:53 (UTC)

That sounds like a good plan. I'll go ahead with this unless there are any serious objections. android79 22:33, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Maybe somebody could include the estimated stats of Negro league players as footnotes to these lists. I think Satchel Paige is though to have won some 2000 games in his lifetime, and that Josh Gibson hit around 800 homeruns.