Random MLB fun facts

[Bobster]

https://x.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1907126696681288138

https://x.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1907127773493366953

Aaron Judge in 3 games:
4 home runs, 2 doubles, 11 runs batted in

Atlanta Braves in 5 games:
4 home runs, 2 doubles, 8 runs batted in

Pirates in 5 games:
1 HR, 5 doubles, 14 RBIs

[Doc]

https://x.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1907126696681288138

https://x.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1907127773493366953

Aaron Judge in 3 games:
4 home runs, 2 doubles, 11 runs batted in

Atlanta Braves in 5 games:
4 home runs, 2 doubles, 8 runs batted in

Pirates in 5 games:
1 HR, 5 doubles, 14 RBIs

Wow, we have that many RBIs?!? Damn!

[3pirates3]

https://x.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1911894596273185003

[Bobster]

WHIP is a strange stat.

Hits + walks / innings pitched.

If a batter is hit by the pitch on a 3-ball count, it goes as a HBP instead of a walk, so it doesn't count against the pitcher's WHIP. But if the batter had managed to avoid the pitch, it would have been ball-4 and increased the pitcher's WHIP. So WHIP is intended to show the average number of base runners a pitcher allows per inning via hits and walks unless he hits a batter even on what would have otherwise been a walk. Maybe they shouldn't count infield hits against the WHIP either. It would make just as much sense.

[Ecbucs]

WHIP is a strange stat.

Hits + walks / innings pitched.

If a batter is hit by the pitch on a 3-ball count, it goes as a HBP instead of a walk, so it doesn't count against the pitcher's WHIP. But if the batter had managed to avoid the pitch, it would have been ball-4 and increased the pitcher's WHIP. So WHIP is intended to show the average number of base runners a pitcher allows per inning via hits and walks unless he hits a batter even on what would have otherwise been a walk. Maybe they shouldn't count infield hits against the WHIP either. It would make just as much sense.

I remember as a kid we had a strat-o-matic baseball league in the neighborhood. One person kept score by counting HBP as walks. There was a big discussion on this as everyone else had it as a separate category. Of course we didn't know about WHIP back then.