Ask the average person to measure a pitcher's skill with a singular statistic. How many would spit his earned run average, or ERA, back at you? Even in today's numbers-heavy game, long-standing ...

That means that pitchers who are good at preventing earned runs are also generally good at preventing unearned runs. Of the top 50 pitchers in career (normalized) ERA, 46 of them were better than ...

While individual wins, strikeout totals and earned run average are the prototypical benchmarks set for Cy Young contention, they often fail to separate individual progress from team accomplishments.

When the 2009 season started, it looked like the Yankees would run away with the AL East with ... Ransom is dead last on the team in batting with a .180 average, and has a .226 OBP.