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On-Base Percentage and Slugging Average Prove the Greatness of Ford and Sabathia

is general agreement that on-base percentage is a more effective method than batting average when evaluating a hitter's value.

Most "experts" give much more weight to slugging average than to batting average.

If one accepts the above, then on-base percentage and slugging average against a pitcher must be given great weight when evaluating effectiveness.

Whitey Ford often pitched games in which he allowed seven or eight hits in as many innings, but most of the hits he allowed were singles. At least that's what I remember seeing and Mel Allen telling me.

Baseball-Reference has the data.

In his career, Ford was 236-106 for a .690 winning percentage. He pitched 3,170.1 innings and allowed 2,766 hits, or 7.9 hits ...

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