The World's Stupidist Stat

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Posted By: Ken W.

The save, is a stat that was totally created by agents in order to more clearly define the value of the pitchers they represented. Before that, relief pitchers had little leverage in salary negotiations, because they rarely had meaningful Won/Loss records. Now, agents are trying to define a new stat, the hold, so that the same stratagies can be extended to set-up men, who have neither W/L records nor saves.