Overthe past few decades, a multitude of advanced hitting, pitching,fielding and base running measures have been introduced to the baseballworld. This comprehensive sabermetrics primer will introduce you tothese new statistics with easy to understand explanations and examples.It will illustrate the evolution of statistics from simple traditionalmeasures to the more complex metrics of today. You will learn how allthe statistics are connected to winning and losing games, how tointerpret them, and how to apply them to performance on the field. Bythe end of this book, you will be able to evaluate players and teamsthrough statistics more thoroughly and accurately than you could before.