Major League Umpires' Performance, 2007-2010 A Comprehensive Statistical Review

Name: Major League Umpires' Performance, 2007-2010 A Comprehensive Statistical Review
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ISBN: 9780786460588

ISBN-10: 078646058X

ISBN-13: 9780786460588

Edition: 2011

Authors: Andrew Goldblatt

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Thirty years into baseball's sabermetric revolution, relatively little attention has been paid to the impact of a major league umpire's ball-and-strike judgment on game results. This welcome study corrects this omission by profiling more than ninety current umpires, summarizing their professional history, and charting their performance at home plate from 2007 through 2010. Annual and four-season rankings place the umpires according to four categories: runs per nine innings, walks per nine innings, strikeouts per nine innings, and strikeout-to-walk ratio. The statistical analysis reveals that the home plate umpire's influence on a game can be huge, both in terms of runs scored and the…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 4/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English