It seems like just last night I was writing about how much I appreciate those brilliant minds that are able to reverse-engineer statistical measurements to more accurately define what we see on the baseball diamond. Well, the good folks at BP are ahead of the curve when it comes to this sort of ingenuity and they’ve done it again with Deserved Run Average (DRA).
Most people are familiar with ERA, the ubiquitous measure of a pitchers earned runs allowed per 9 innings. But that stat gets a little clunky in that it can really factor in situational elements of the game and it’s also lumping defensive capabilities into the mix.