Ditch The "Unearned" Run

Thursday, April 08 2004 @ 02:44 AM EDT

Contributed by: Craig B

Michael Wolverton has a great new article up (in the free section) on Baseball Prospectus entitled "Not Earning Its Keep" in which he advocates ditching the concept of earned runs. This is something I've felt would be a good idea for a long time, I'm glad to see that I'm not alone.

What do people think of de-emphasizing earned runs and ERA? Obviously, from a practical point of view, it will take a while to accomplish that sort of change. I'm going to try to start by avoiding ERA in favour of RA when doing player analysis.

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