Baseball Stats Abbreviations

Baseball Stats Abbreviations

Please explain Baseball rules, meanings, abbreviations to me?

Australian television has recently begun showing Major League Baseball on free-to-air- tv. I’ve never been a big sports nut and had very little exposure to baseball but have found myself glued to the games for hours on end.

Well, we all understand why you love this game. It’s great — especially when you know the whole game.

Firstly, I’d reccomend a book. There’s too much to explain here. Two books that are very informative are Watching Baseball Smarter by Zack Hample and Baseball for Dummies by Joe Morgan & others.

Basically, since your request is very broad, I can give you the abbreviations.

AVG: Batting Average (average at-bats in which a player gets a hit. Anything above .295 is considered good. Above .315 is near the top of the league. There hasn’t been a .400 batter since 1941, and it doesn’t look like there will be soon. Anything under .270 is considered poor. Under .200 is something called the “Mendoza line” — which nobody wants to come near.

HR: Homeruns (usually every starter in the MLB will have a few homeruns. The league leader usually has around 45, and usually the players near the top of the league have 30-40. Between 25-30 is good, 18-24 is above-average, 10-17 is average, below ten is below average. First basemen usually have the most homeruns, while catchers, second basemen, and shortstop usually have the least.

SB: Stolen Bases (if you have less than three a season, you’re slow. Usually between 5-10 is considered average speed, 10-15 is decent speed, 15-25 is above-average, 25-35 is good, 35+ is very good. Over 45 is near the top of the league. The league leader usually has about 55-65.

RBI: Runs batted in
R: Runs scored
2B: Doubles
3B: triples
CS: Caught stealing
H: hits
BB: base on balls (walk)
K or SO: strikeout
OBP: On-base percentage
GIDP: Grounded into Double Play
HBP: hit by pitch
SLG: Slugging
OPS: On-base plus slugging
TB: Total Bases
AB: At-bat
PA: Plate Appearence

FIELDING
E: Errors
FP: Fielding Percentage (lower standards for shortstops, third baseman, and second basemen)

PITCHING
W: Wins
SO: shutouts
K: Strikeouts
ERA: Earned Run average
WHIP: Walks + hits per inning
BB: Base on balls allowed
WP: Wild Pitches
CG: complete games
GS: Games started
G: games pitched
S: Saves

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