Today, we shall begin our dive into Sabermetrics. Many of the readers here commented on my first post and stated that they were interested in learning more about Sabermetrics, several of which also were interested in learning “the basics”. I think it will be good to start from the beginning, with both hitting and pitching stats. It will certainly be useful to have this post to reference in the future.
This week, I will go through the basic stats in offense and give a bit more detailed understanding about what they actually mean. I won’t go over the counting stats (R, RBI, 2B, 3B, XBH, etc.