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2017LHPscrewball posted:

STATS - Can you give a brief overview of how WHIP gets calculated?

It’s really one of the more simple baseball statistic calculations there is. Walks + Hits divided by innings pitched. Many believe it to a measurement of the number of base runners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched and/or a measure of a pitcher's ability to prevent batters from reaching base. The reason I believe HBPs should be added to the computation, at least for amateurs, is because a hit batter is a runner and comes as a direct result of the pitcher.

Looking at just free passes, BBs & HBPs, it’s not unusual for HBPs to be right at 25% of the total. To me that’s a significant number and therefore has a lot of effect on the final WHIP number.

6/7/164:07 PM

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