Notes for Episode 14: Lead-off Hitting

Another episode I thoroughly enjoyed researching. In this discussion, Corwin and I go over what metrics we find to be most useful when examining the skill of a lead-off hitter in the MLB. I included a screenshot of some of the spreadsheet to look over, but if you would like the full spreadsheet, please click the link below the image to go to our Google drive containing all of our research for each episode. As a key, the abbreviations are as follows:

G=games; AB=At Bats; PA=Plate Appearances; Pit/PA=Pitches per Plate Appearance; SO=Strike Outs; CS=Caught Stealing; BB%=Walk Percent; OBP=On-Base Percent; Spd=Speed; LHR=Lead-off Hitter Rating; LHR+=Lead-off Hitter Rating Plus

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1alMKyaniEFFuq7JmNRAFnI-VSdsZzFWF

Topics in this episode:

- Lead-off hitting

- Differentiating Lead-off hitting from the rest of your lineup

- Valuable metrics

- Why Josh loves equations