Musings From Wrigley Field on Legal Metrics

As a Cubs fan, the only real baseball statistic I know stone cold is 108. (For those who share my affliction, particularly those of you who enjoy a good wallowing, here is a depressing list.)

My relative naiveté about baseball statistics notwithstanding, anyone even moderately interested in the game knows that baseball has counted a lot of things since its earliest days of existence. Hits, home runs, errors, stolen bases — these are examples of “counting statistics.” We compare player performance across generations based on the accumulation of statistics. For die-hard fans of the game, the devotion to statistics is a part of what makes the game special.

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