Why begin with wOBA? I use it a lot, for one, so this will hopefully lead to readers understanding what I’m going on about. But, second, it’s not really that complicated. wOBA, essentially, is runs/PA. The rate at which the batter produced runs for his team. What else matters? Runs are the bottom line in baseball.
But before we get to wOBA, it’s worth justifying the necessity of a new stat. So let’s look at what folks have typically used to evaluate hitters. I’m going to ignore runs and RBI, but Scott covered them too. …
The Sabermetrics Library @ saberlibrary.com has links to several sabermetric concept primers.
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