phatj wrote:TenuredVulture wrote:swishnicholson wrote:BB/9 innings should also include HBP. Sure, it doesn't make that big a difference for most pitchers, but it's still free passes issued due to control issues (or is it command?). And since it's the most commonly used shorthand for this quality, it would be a little more accurate without a lot of work needed. You'd have to come up with another name for it, though.
Does it count for OBP? It certainly should.
As Barry notes, it does. This actually reminds me of one of my baseball-related pet peeves. The fact that the traditional stats for pitchers and batters are completely different never made any sense; what's good for a batter is bad for a pitcher, and vice versa. So why not use the same stats? I know that BA Allowed and so forth are sometimes used to describe pitchers, but why were these not used in the first place?
yep. I think it's especially unfair how pitchers are judged by ERA which can be ruined for a year with 1 inning, while batters can have a bad month and still have good stats at the end of the year. If pitchers were judged on a per batter basis it would be more fair to them.
