Clipping:Chadwick on scoring bases on balls and stolen bases; ERA a pitching stat
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| Date | Wednesday, May 30, 1888 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] I differ in my views in regard to earned runs from nearly every other base ball reporter, inasmuch as I estimate them entirely in accordance with the rule of their being earned solely off the pitching, and not off the fielding, or the fielding and pitching combined. Earned runs as a factor in forming a criterion of the skill are useless except as applicable to the pitching alone. They are used in the season's averages only as bearing upon the pitcher's work. Why, then, bring into the estimate of the work of base players and catchers, as is done in the case of using stolen bases and bases scored by the errors of base player and catchers factors in estimating earned runs? As regards using bases on balls as factors in estimating an earned run, the idea, in my mind, is too silly to waste argument on it. A base on balls is a battery error, and it does not belong to the column assigned to fielding errors at all, no more than the record of assistances on strikes belongs to the fielding assistance column, such assistances belonging exclusively to the battery records, which should be in the summary. The absurdity of using a base on balls as a factor in earned runs is shown in the fact of placing a run on the record as earned which has been scored by successive bases on balls without a base hit having been made. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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