To say I love baseball is an understatement. To my family, baseball is so much more than a game, but our history. My grandfather tried out for the Giants, my Great Uncle Pete Castiglione played for the Cards and Pirates. My dad, his brother, sister, son, and I played. It is a family tradition to …
The following blog was sent to me by a guest blogger, Alex Cosgrove, who is an Associate Producer for d Q30’s Bobcat Breakdown at Quinnipiac University. As reported in yesterday’s news, Major League Baseball has adopted a new rule hoping to eliminate collision’s at home plate that pose a threat to the safety of the …
This posting will use four baseball statistics, batting average (AVG), in-play batting average (IPBA), strike-out average (SOA) and home-run average (HRA). Their definitions are AVG = #H/#AB, IPBA = #H/(#AB−#SO), SOA =#SO/#AB and HRA = #HR/#AB. It turns out that AVG = IPBA*(1−SOA). The two figures below show these four statistics for the years 1901 thru …