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Sabermetrics Pitching 202: Intermediate Pitching Stats

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I was out last week due to a business trip, but I’m back to go to the next level in pitching stats. Luckily, we’ve only got three stats to look at today, but two of them (FIP/xFIP) are worthy of an entire post on their own - but we’ll save that for another day.

Left On-base Percentage (LOB%)

Formula:

What does it actually mean: The percentage of baserunners that a pitcher leaves on base (versus scoring a run).

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