Earned Run Average (ERA) is a notoriously poor way to assess how a pitcher performed. Over the years, we’ve realized this to be true, and we’ve worked to find ways that we may be able to point our analysis more directly at the performance of the pitcher. In this piece we will attempt to do
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June 2021: Looking at DRA
Here is an updated look at Deserved Run Average, or DRA. What is it? Who is performing well? Who isn’t? Let’s explore.WHAT IS DRA?From Baseball Prospectus…Deserved Run Average (DRA) uses a collection of mixed models to tease out the most likely contributions of pitchers to the run-scoring that occurs around them. Unlike other component metrics, DRA considers (and
June 2021: Fielding Independent Pitching
There are a lot of measures out there which speak to how a pitcher is performer that record that performance better than ERA. One of those measures is Fielding Independent Pitching or FIP. In what follows we will check in on FIP and xFIP.*To be included below, a pitcher has to have thrown 40-innings. There