Clipping:Chadwick on scoring assists for strike outs; earned runs on bases on balls
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| Date | Wednesday, November 2, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] But the system of computing the pitchers' averages in vogue this year is still worse than that governing the batting. Suppose that it is desired to learn by the fielding averages of the League what the skill of a certain pitcher is as a fielder, and on looking at the record we find him credited with a percentage of chances accepted, made up from the data of assistances on strike as well as assistances from actual fielding. By this plan one pitcher, who is an excellent fielder in his position, but unsuccessful in striking out batsmen, is credited with a percentage fifty per cent. below that of the poor fielder who is lucky in his record of strike-outs; and thereby the averages become utterly useless as a criterion of a pitcher's skill in fielding. Assistances on strikes belong exclusively to battery work and not to fielding, such assitances not being fielding assistances as at all, but pitching assitances, and therefore battery figures just as bases on called balls and wild pitches are. But the most stupid rule of all is that giving a earned run on four consecutive bases on called balls, without a single clean hit being made, and it is on this data that the pitcher's percentage of earned runs off his pitching has been made up for 1887. Verily the scoring rules and the method of computing the averages of the season requires a good overhauling by League and American legislators this season. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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