RESEARCH: Does it matter where runners are stranded?
Mar 15 2018
The concept of strand rate (S%), or the amount of baserunners a pitcher allows that don’t score, was first devised at BaseballHQ.com by Ron Shandler many years ago. FanGraphs uses a slightly different statistic (LOB%, originally developed at The Hardball Times), but no matter how you calculate it, leaving runners on base is more luck than skill: players that significantly deviate from the league average in S% or LOB% should expect to see their numbers more towards the league average in the future.
But, is there any information in which base the runners are stranded on? Are some types of pitchers, such as ground ball pitchers, more adept at stranding runners on first base? Do pitchers that strand a greater percentage of runners at...
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