Score one for Sean! Woo-hoo!

Thought for the Day: If the Tigers can win this evening’s contest by 3 or more runs, they will have a positive run differential for the season.

Inge Whip. That’s good. But most of us already have one.

So to taking your idea a step further, I’d like to see the REAL WORLD impact of the ‘non-plays’ or ’0′. Not the projections based on ‘average situations’, but what actually occurred. For example: Guillen botches routine ground ball preventing a double play that sould have ended inning, subsequently 5 Runs scored. So Guillen gets credit for 5 actual RCFO(Runs created for Opponent)

There could be other stats spunoff from this. How about the IERA ‘Inge Earned Run Average’. How many times have we said, ‘Inge could have made that play?’ Well, lets figure it out! Just rescore each game and theoretically place Inge at every position. If Inge would have made the play, give the player an ILE(Inge Level Error) and recalculate the the IERA. We’ll also modify the WHIP and call it IWHIP(Inge Whip) and eliminate all BB/hits that were cause by innings extended by ILE’s.

What you mention in the last part of your post is something I look for, too, truth that gets buried in aggregate stats. The closest thing I’ve found so far as a metric for “clutch” (for lack of a better term) relies on someone else’s work entirely, the wWPA thing in the baseball-reference game logs. It’s winner’s Win Probability Added, and I even think I understand how they come up with those numbers. I would need a database with the entire statistical history of organized baseball in it to calculate such things myself. So I think I’ll leave it to them and borrow from it until I come up with something of my own that satisfies me. Subjectively.