THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Of course we would really like to know these various managers’ SB%, preferably in the score/bases/outs states.  Knowing their SBA rates, while it tells us how often they like to run, tells us nothing about the value that that particular philosophy provides to their team.  You would also have to wonder how each manager’s preference for the hit and run affects the SBA rate…

Yeah, that would absolutely be useful information, MGL. This was geared more for fantasy players where that kind of thing is less useful, and knowing that a particular player will run more, whether that has value to his team or not, has quite a bit of value to fantasy players.

The hit and run thing is interesting too. I’d think there might be some sort of connection there.