Back in 2013, Brian Kenny of the MLB Network began a campaign called “Kill the Win.” The point of Kenny’s campaign was to help baseball fans, broadcasters, and writers understand that wins and losses are a bad way of evaluating the success or failure of a pitcher. The campaign was overall successful. Sure, there was much resistance from old school baseball folks to begin with, but it seems like wins and losses are beginning to be devalued by baseball people on an overall scale.
Now we need to move on to another statistic that is outdated, and extremely overvalued: Batting Average.