RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and the Bust 12/19/13
Episode 83
Jason Collette and Eno Sarris get together for the second and final time in 2013 to discuss the plethora of transactions that conveniently took place after they both departed the Winter Meetings.
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Approximately 100 min of joyous analysis.
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http://www.fangraphs.com/library/pitching/lob/
Left on Base Percentage (LOB%) measures the percentage of base runners that a pitcher strands on base over the course of a season. This stat does not use the left on base numbers reported in box scores, but instead is calculated using a pitcher’s actual hits, walks, and runs allowed results:
LOB% = (H+BB+HBP-R)/(H+BB+HBP-(1.4*HR))
So that explains Street’s nutty LOB rate.
Yep – I went back and calculated by hand because that still seemed nuts, but there it was. He stranded every runner he had from 6/15 until the final day of the season. Flew under my east coast bias radar.