-On 08-28-96, Ed Grinnell was conversing with Scott Zolnoski
discussing Relief pitching:
 SZ> resulting run would be charged to the starter, even though the reliever
 SZ> had (in my opinion) more responsibility for the run.
EG>I've always favored a system that credits a pitching with 1/4 runs. How 
this
  >works is that if a guy pitcher leaves anyone on base, they get "credit" 
for the
  >number of bases that left the reliever. A guy on first would count 1/4 of 
a run
Interesting theory, Ed, but that would completely change the stat of 
ERA (unless a new catagory was used).  For rating relievers (actually 
all pitchers, but it would more show 'effective' relievers), I would 
like to see RWP, Runs While Pitching.  Toss out earned versus unearned 
runs, average out how many runs were scored while the pitcher was on 
the mound into a nine inning game.  I suspect there are number of top 
level relievers that would lose out on that stat, and starters may or 
may not have better RWP than ERA, depending on the relievers and the 
unearned runs.
Dick
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