In baseball what does the statistical category WHIP stand for?
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walks+hits per inning pitched
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why is this question under baseball?
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Okay, this will seem a little bit confusing, since it involves mathmatical formulas. \nIn baseball statistics, slugging average (or slugging percent) (often abbreviated SLG or SA) is a measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats. \nThe formula is SLG= (h + d + 2t + 3hr) / (n_{AB}) \n- h stands for hits, d stands for doubles, t is triples, ht is homeruns, and n_{ab} is at bats for a certain player. \nHere's an example of slugging percentage:\nIn 1920, Babe Ruth was playing his first season for the New York Yankees. In 458 at bats, he had 172 hits, 36 doubles, 9 triples, and 54 home runs, which brings the total base count to (172 × 1) + (36 × 1) + (9 × 2) + (54 × 3) = 388. He had 458 at bats, so his total number of bases (388) divided by his total at-bats (458) is .847, his slugging average.\nAnother way of doing slugging percentage SLG = (s + 2d + 3t + 4h)/(n_{AB}), where s, are the number of singles; so that each base touched counts as one. \n(MLB.com and many major statistical sources often don't note the number of singles a player has hit both because they assume that the reader can quickly figure it out)\n\nSlugging average is actually extremely useful in finding many different statistical numbers for batters. Long after it was first invented, the slugging average gained new significance when baseball analysts realized that it combined with on-base percentage to form a very good measure of a player's overall production. Allen Barra and George Ignatin were apparently the first to combine the two statistics, multiplying them together to form what is now known as "SLOB" (Slugging × On-Base). Bill James applied this principle to his Runs Created formula several years later (and perhaps independently), essentially multiplying SLOB × At-Bats (the actual formula for Runs Created is: RC = [(Hits + Walks)(TotalBases)] / [AtBats + Walks]). In 1984, Pete Palmer and John Thorn developed perhaps the most widespread means of combining slugging and on-base average: OPS. "OPS" simply stands for "on-base plus slugging", and is a simple addition of the two values. While less accurate than SLOB and Runs Created, OPS is extremely easy to calculate, and has become the unofficial shorthand form of player evaluation in recent years.\n\nThe term "slugging percentage" is technically incorrect. SLG in fact measures an AVERAGE, not a percent
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SV- saves\nSHO shutouts\nCG- Complete game\nBB- Walk\nWHIP-  walks plus hits divided by innings pitched\nBAA- Batting average against
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In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by multiplying the number of earned runs allowed by nine and dividing by the number of innings pitched.\n\nIt looks like this:\nERA = 9(ER/IP)
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SLG = [(1*hit)+(2*double)+(3*triple)+(4*HR)]/at bat Slugging percentage is defined like total bases divided by at bats. visit for more information www.factbug.org More important than statistics is the game. Enjoy it!!!
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Depending on the side of the ball you come from... Based on the way things are going?  Payroll  Because you can buy a great team and build a winning tradition.  The team may not win the World Series every year but they will always be in contention.\n\nIf you want real stats from a analitical point on players:\n\nTraditionally, statistics like batting average for batters (the number of hits divided by the number of at bats) and earned run average (approximately the number of runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings) have governed the statistical world of baseball. However, the advent of sabermetrics brought an onslaught of new statistics that better gauge a player's performance and contributions to his team from year to year.\n\nSome sabermetric statistics have entered the mainstream baseball world. Among statistics that do an excellent job of measuring a batter's performance, On-base plus slugging (OPS) is the easiest to calculate. It adds the hitter's on base percentage ([hits + walks + number of times hit by pitches] divided by [number of times at bat + walks + number of times hit by a pitch + number of sacrifice flies]) to his or her slugging percentage (total bases divided by at bats). Some argue that the OPS formula is flawed and that more weight should be shifted towards OBP (on base percentage). Regardless, OPS still stands as the most direct means of evaluating a hitter's performance using readily available statistics.
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It is a baseball term.\n\nWhen there are no runners on base, a pitcher "winds up" to make a pitch, using his whole body to put more speed on the ball.  However, if there are runners on-base, it is easier for them to steal a base if the pitcher "winds-up".  To prevent this, a pitcher will throw "from the stretch" or "out of the stretch" meaning that he makes much less of a motion before throwing the ball.
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It is the calculation of how many walks and hits per innings pitched it is not very often use so unless you are a very serious pitcher that is looking towards the college level, I really wouldn't worry about it. Mainly just focus on ERA, It is a lot more important but harder to find.
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Pitcher's statistic: Ratio of strikeouts (k) to walks (bb).  If a pitcher has struckout 10 batters, and walked 5, his k/bb = 10/5, or 2.0.  \n\nIt's an indication of his command, if he strikes out more batters than he walks, he has good control of his pitches.
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What does that mean? Is it about baseball, is it not, if not why is it in baseball category?
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OPS -On Base Percentage plus Slugging Percentage-  \n\nI am assuming you mean the batter and not the pitcher.
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baseball. Home is refering to home plate.
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Batting Average Against.....a pitchers stat.\n\nMeans if a pitcher has a .220 BAA....all hitters he faces is hitting .220 against him.  .220 is pretty darn good.  \n\nMake sense?
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In scoring, a strikeout is recorded as a backward-facing K. Some scorers record strikeouts where the batter didn't swing at the last pitch with a backwards-facing K, also recorded as K-C. The use of "K" for a strikeout was invented by Henry Chadwick, a newspaper journalist. The letter "S" was used to coin "sacrifice" so Mr. Chadwick decided to use "K", with "K" being the last letter in "struck". Mr. Chadwick also invented many other baseball scoring abbreviations, such as using numbers to designate player positions.\n\nPlease choose as best if you like :)
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In baseball, a submarine is a pitch delivered with a three-quarter sidearm or underhand motion. The pitcher delivers the ball while almost scraping his knuckles on the dirt. The pitch has a tendency to break more than one delivered with an overhand motion. Pitches thrown via a submarine motion are also generally more difficult for hitters to see relative to pitches thrown via an overhand motion. These are the toughest pitchers for same-side batters to hit (if the submarine pitcher is right handed, then he or she is the most difficult for a right handed hitter to hit). But a lot of their breaking balls seem to float to an opposite-side batter.
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/curve.html