As I sat with my friend in the second deck of Dodger Stadium on September 4, 2017, we began to contemplate the impossible. Heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, Robbie Ray had retired the first 15 batters he faced without allowing a baserunner. The Diamondbacks were up 2-0, J.D. Martinez having hit a …
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MLB: The art of expected bases
I don’t quite remember which player statistics the Hillsboro Hops had up on their right field scoreboard during the Northwest League minor league game. One for sure was batting average, and one for sure was OPS. OPS, of course, stands for On-base Plus Slugging, or, put mildly, the sum of a player’s on-base percentage (how …