QUOTE (greg775 @ May 4, 2014 -> 09:45 PM)
I realize some baseball broadcasts show on base percentage somewhere on the screen when a batter steps to the plate, but broadcast teams do not discuss anything but the age-old batting average, home runs and RBIs during their broadcasts.
Why is this? Today the Royals announcers were going through a discussion of KC hitters. Only thing they talked about was batting average. If advanced statistics are the future and were chronicled so heavily in Moneyball, why don't announcers discuss them?
For hitters, it's batting average, HR, RBI; for pitchers it's still wins, losses and ERA and pitch count. No discussion of Sabes. No discussion EVER of on base percentage and things like that.
It's crazy.
OBP isn't really that sabermetric-y, but I agree with you. It tends to be the older announcers that are north of 45/50 that don't discuss them. It'll take some time for these stats to be accepted by most.