Evaluating Hitters

John Ruggiero ()
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John Ruggiero: University of Dayton

Chapter Chapter 5 in Frontiers in Major League Baseball, 2011, pp 39-47 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Mazur (1995) applied DEA to rank the performance of MLB players. Mazur assumed that all players had the same input level and chose three outputs: batting average, home runs, and runs batted in. These three measures comprise the “triple crown” in major league baseball. Certainly, a team would prefer players with higher values of each of these variables. However, as pointed out by Anderson and Sharpe (1997), runs batted in by a particular player largely depends on the ability of the player’s teammates to reach base prior to the at bat.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0831-5_5

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