re braves pitching updatedir grabiner math harvard edu david grabiner writes in article c l c lc murdoch acc virginia edu david robert walker writes in article blue cis pitt edu traven pitt edu neal traven writes one also has to separate offense into batting and baserunning with the split probably somewhere around and i d give baserunning a little more credit than that maybe or even give a team of roberto alomar and a team of john oleruds identical batting stats which wouldn t be that unreasonable and even if you don t let roberto steal a single base they ll score a lot more than the oleruds by going first to third more often no offense gordon i wouldn t give baserunning that much value i meant to comment on this at the time there s just no way baserunning could be that important if it was runs created wouldn t be nearly as accurate as it is runs created is usually about accurate on a team level and there s a lot more than baserunning that has to account for the remaining percent greg
