Affirmative defense. An affirmative defense to a civil lawsuit or criminal charge is a fact or set of facts other than those alleged by the plaintiff or prosecutor which, if proven by the defendant, defeats or mitigates the legal consequences of the defendant's otherwise unlawful conduct.
Quick Answer. In baseball, the acronym WHIP stands for walks plus hits per inning pitched and is a way of measuring the efficacy of a pitcher. WHIP essentially measures the number of base runners allowed by each pitcher and is used in sabermetric player analysis. Continue Reading.
Walks + Hits per Inning Pitched = WHIP. SABR can take credit for this and a lot of other meaningful new metrics. The theory is that wins are not as important a measure of success (after all, winning a lot of games 8-7 or 7-5 just means your team has good offense). But keeping hitters off base is an important metric. If a pitcher gives up 150 hit and 50 walks in 200 innings, then he has a perfectly respectable WHIP of 1.00.