re braves pitching updatedir in article blue cis pitt edu traven pitt edu neal traven writes one of the chapters in palmer and thorn s hidden game is titled pitching is of baseball implying that fielding is how do they determine that beats me it s been a long long time since i read it this was my opinion the stupidest thing in the hidden game the argument was defense or runs allowed is of the game unearned runs amount to of the runs allowed earned runs since unearned runs are the result of fielding not pitching and earned runs are the product of pitching not fielding fielding is of defense and pitching is of defense caombining with pitching is of the game fielding pete is usually sharper than that my own feel is that fielding is in the of defense range call it between fielding and pitching 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 clay d
