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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Monday, July 25, 20051957 Ballot Discussion1957 (August 8)—elect 2 1957 (July 31)—elect 2 Players Passing Away in 1956 Candidates John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy
Posted: July 25, 2005 at 01:26 PM | 106 comment(s)
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The value of an IP is what it is. It doesn't know who threw it.
As Karl says, it's a matter of who gets responsibility for the outs. Pitchers throw fewer innings now because the work harder on every at bat, and part of the reason that they work harder is because they make more of the difference: more K's, more home runs, less variation in fielding talent behind them all mean that more responsibility for run prevention rests with pitchers.
Has anybody given thought to some sort of quantitative measure of how much more responsibility the pitcher has for differential outs today? (I say "differential outs" because as fielding gets better you could argue that the fielders are more important and the pitchers less; the retort being that, yes, but that's the same for most pitchers [the ones who don't have Derek Jeter behind them at SS ;-)]).
Just for the record, I gave 50 percent of pitching WS pre-1893 to fielders. After that I treat them all the same. What specific adjustments would you make? How has the change progressed through the decades?
To answer that, based on Chris' comment, you'd have to factor in all the DIPs factors plus the changes in differential fielding rates, right? Any other factors? Anybody got a formula for that?
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