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Value over replacement player — In baseball, value over replacement player (or VORP) is a statistic invented by Keith Woolner that demonstrates how much a hitter contributes offensively or how much a pitcher contributes to his team in comparison to a fictitious replacement… … Wikipedia
Evolution of baseball player evaluation — has taken place over many years. Player evaluation is the process by which general managers and other baseball personnel judge the ability of a baseball player to contribute meaningfully to his team.Baseball has been around for a very long time.… … Wikipedia
Total player rating — (TPR), also known as Batter Fielder/Pitcher Wins (BFW/PW) is a metric for measuring the value of baseball players, and to enable players to be compared against each other even when they played for different teams, at different positions, and in… … Wikipedia
Baseball Prospectus — Baseball Prospectus, sometimes abbreviated as BP, is a think tank focusing on sabermetrics, the statistical analysis of the sport of baseball. Baseball Prospectus has fathered several popular new statistical tools which have become hallmarks of… … Wikipedia
Sabermetrics — is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research. It was coined by Bill James, who was among its first… … Wikipedia
List of baseball jargon (V) — visiting team:A team playing in another team s home stadium is the visiting team or the visitors. The visiting team bats in the top half of the inning. A fabled sign at Tiger Stadium on the visitor s clubhouse read No Visitors Allowed .VORP:Value … Wikipedia
Arthur Gould (rugby player) — Arthur Gould Arthur Gould … Wikipedia
Super linear weights — is a method for evaluating the contributions of a baseball player towards his team. It was designed by Mitchel Lichtman and it calculates the total value that a baseball player contributes towards his team in terms of runs, where 0 represents the … Wikipedia
Neal Huntington — Neal Alden Huntington (born February 4, 1969) is the 12th person to serve as General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball organization. He was named to the position on September 25, 2007 by new Pirates President Frank… … Wikipedia
Lyle Overbay — Overbay while with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2009. Free Agent … Wikipedia
