From: traven@pitt.edu (Neal Traven)
Subject: Re: Braves Pitching UpdateDIR
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Dave Naehring X2079 P7630 (ep502dn@pts.mot.com) wrote:
: In article 2482@adobe.com, snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols) writes:
: >Every single piece of evidence we can find points to Major League Baseball
: >being 50% offense, 50% defense.  A run scored is just as important as a run
: >prevented.  
: >
: This certainly passes the "common sense test" for me, but is there any
: statistical evidence to say what percent of defense is pitching and what
: percent is fielding?  I'd really like to know.  BTW, Sherri, thanks for 
: the DA data I find it fascinating.

One of the chapters in Palmer and Thorn's 'Hidden Game' is titled
'Pitching is 44% of Baseball,' implying that fielding is 6%.  How do
they determine that?  Beats me -- it's been a long, long time since I
read it.

One also has to separate offense into batting and baserunning, with the
split probably somewhere around 49.5% and 0.5%.
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