{"id":381,"date":"2010-06-12T14:46:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2010-12-08T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T03:19:09","slug":"outfielder-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Outfielder Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Strat-O-Matic, outfielder errors result in the batter reaching second or third. What kind of errors do outfielders really make?<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the 2,386 errors made in MLB 2005-2009. (From Retrosheet, natch.) That&#8217;s about one every five games. I divided them into the five categories shown in the chart below.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/outfield_errors_pie.png' alt='outfield_errors_pie.png' \/><\/p>\n<p>Only a quarter involve the batter reaching base on the error. The majority involve advancement of other baserunners, most after a hit.<\/p>\n<p>A little more detail in the table below, which shows how many bases the batter advanced on the error.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/outfield_errors_table.png' alt='outfield_errors_table.png' \/><\/p>\n<p>An error that allows the batter to go to second on a single is, by far, the most common occurrence. The table hides a lot of detail, though, like the base situation and the advancement of those other runners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Strat-O-Matic, outfielder errors result in the batter reaching second or third. What kind of errors do outfielders really make? I looked at the 2,386 errors made in MLB 2005-2009. (From Retrosheet, natch.) That&#8217;s about one every five games. I divided them into the five categories shown in the chart below. Only a quarter involve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outfielder Errors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-tabletop-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}