Yesterday, Baseball Prospectus released a new all-encompassing hitting metric called “Deserved Runs Created.” Developed by venerable #BrewersTwitter member Jonathan Judge, Deserved Runs Created has been tested to be a more accurate assessment of a hitter’s true contributions at the plate than common metrics like OPS+, wRC+, and the Statcast expected statistics. So what is Deserved Runs Created, or DRC+? I’ll refer you to the introductory article from BP:
Simply put, DRC+ measures all of a player’s contributions at the plate. The model digs beneath play outcomes to isolate how much of the outcome should be credited to the hitter, then weighs those contributions on the value he provided to the team.