sabermetrics

When living out their dream, some people spend time in the ocean swimming with dolphins. For others it might be driving a really fast car really really fast around a racing track; perhaps even getting interviewed by Tomato while they are doing it. But there are 22 players this season in baseball...

Measuring a pitcher's performance through wins and losses is generally not considered a true and accurate measure. Similarly the use of a simplistic measure like ERA is affected by ballpark factors, the quality of the defense as well as quite a bit of luck. The xFIP metric is an estimation of...