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Wins Above Replacement or Wins Above Replacement Player, commonly abbreviated to WAR or WARP, is a non-standardized sabermetric baseball statistic developed to sum up "a player's total contributions to his team". [ 1 ] A player's WAR value is claimed to be the number of additional wins his team has achieved above the number of expected team ...
Trades between two or more major-league teams may freely occur at any time during a window that opens two days after the starting date of the final game of the most recent World Series and closes at 4 pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC 2000) on July 31. MLB had allowed trades during the month of August if players cleared waivers, but August trades ...
On-base plus slugging (OPS) is a sabermetric baseball statistic calculated as the sum of a player's on-base percentage and slugging percentage. [ 1] The ability of a player both to get on base and to hit for power, two important offensive skills, are represented. An OPS of .800 or higher in Major League Baseball puts the player in the upper ...
Injured list. An April 1925 newspaper article about players on baseball's "disabled list", as the injured list was then known. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the injured list (IL) is a method for teams to remove their injured players from the roster in order to summon healthy players. Before the 2019 season, it was known as the disabled list (DL).
t. e. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the wild card teams are the three teams in each of the two leagues ( American and National) that qualify for the postseason despite failing to win their division; the three wild card teams in each league possess the three best winning percentages in their league after the league's three division winners.
Designated for assignment ( DFA) is a contractual term used in Major League Baseball (MLB). [ 2] A player who is designated for assignment is immediately removed from the team's 40-man roster, after which the team must, within seven days, [ a] return the player to the 40-man roster, place the player on waivers, trade the player, release the ...
Pitch clock. A pitch clock (also known as a pitch timer) [ 1] is used in various baseball leagues to limit the amount of time a pitcher uses before he throws the ball to the hitter and/or limit the amount of time the hitter uses before he is prepared to hit. Various baseball leagues and tournaments around the world have started using a pitch ...
So it looks like we’re headed for a work stoppage. Baseball’s current collective bargaining agreement expires on Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. ET, and after months of largely slow-moving ...