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Each entry contains the leaderboard appearances for the player in a Stat or Award. The entries are the year, the value for this stat, and their rank for statistics, and the year and the award for awards. Leaders are in bold. Rankings among career and active leaderboards are listed as well.
Sep 25, 2024 · Learn the essential baseball abbreviations and their meanings, including offensive, pitching, fielding, and advanced sabermetrics stats. Understand how these terms shape player and team performance in MLB and beyond.
Sep 26, 2022 · Baseball scorecard abbreviations help fans track the action in a baseball game. Learn what you do or don’t know about scoring, and keep track on your own scorecard.
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- Aspirin Tablet. A fastball might be called an aspirin tablet because it moves so quickly that it looks as small as a little white headache pill. It may also go by many other names that are self-explanatory, and not named below: bullet, blazer, dart, gas, heater, hummer, pumper, smoke, or steam.
- Baltimore Chop. A hit that causes the ball to immediately bounce high enough off the ground to escape the reach of infielders while the batter safely makes it to first base is a Baltimore chop.
- Can of Corn. If there's a high fly ball that falls lazily into a fielder's glove, that's a can of corn. Theories abound about its origin, but the most popular one holds that the act was like the grocery clerk’s practice of easily catching a can of corn in their apron after tipping it from the top shelf with a long stick.
- Chin Music. Chin music has been used since at least 1822 to refer to idle chatter. In the 1970s, it entered the baseball lexicon as a term for a pitch in which the ball whizzes by the chin of the batter such that they can hear it sing.
Sep 26, 2022 · It's easier to root, root, root for the home team if you know your baseball statistics! Learn all about baseball stat abbreviations for batting and more.
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A slang term for a baseball record that is disputed in popular opinion (i.e., unofficially) because of a perception that the record holder had an unfair advantage in attaining the record. It implies that the record requires a footnote explaining the purportedly unfair advantage, with the asterisk being a symbol commonly used in typography to call out footnotes.
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Today, we will be going through some of the most common baseball stats abbreviations and their meanings. The game of baseball is filled with tons of statistics. Some of the abbreviations used can be quite easy to understand, while others can be downright confusing.
