THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Pirates GM says wOBA?

It’s true:

We are going to utilize several objective measures of player performance to evaluate and develop players. We’ll rely on the more traditional objective evaluations: ... but we’ll also look to rely on some of the more recent variations: VORP (value over replacement player), Relative Performance, EqAve (equivalent average), EqOBP (equivalent on base percentage), EqSLG (equivalent slugging percentage), BIP% (balls put into play percentage), wOBA (weighted on base average), Range Factor, PMR (probabilistic model of range) and Zone Rating.

I guess he hasn’t hired MGL yet, since UZR is conspicuous by its absence.