Writer Jerome Holtzman was the first to give specific criteria to saves in the early s. But saves didn't become an official stat until Save SV Definition A save is awarded to the relief pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team, under certain circumstances. A relief pitcher recording a save must preserve his team's lead while doing one of the following: Enter the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitch at least one inning.
Enter the game with the tying run in the on-deck circle, at the plate or on the bases. Baseball has quite a few stats to stay on top of. Holds are not an official MLB statistical category: You may find that different statistical services use a different criteria, which is why holds reflected in box scores may not appear in your team scoring.
A pitcher is charged with a Blown Save when he enters the game in a save situation and leaves the game having given up that lead, regardless of which pitcher is officially charged with the runs that are allowed. In the event a game goes in to extra innings and the MLB applies the rule of a runner starting at 2nd base:. Note - All games that begin and are later postponed will be considered suspended and stats will count.
Information about postponed and suspended games can be found in the About rainouts, doubleheaders, and cancelled or suspended games in Fantasy Baseball article. According to Rule For a Pickoff to be credited in Fantasy Baseball, the base runner must be put out returning to the base and without making any move toward the next base. If a pitcher throws to a base to pick off a base runner, and the runner breaks for the next base on the play, the pitcher isn't credited with a pickoff on the play if an out is recorded.
The play will be officially credited as Caught Stealing. The Fantasy season isn't extended for rain-outs or makeup games played after the regular season is scheduled to end. You need to have JavaScript enabled to use this page. It was possible, under both earlier versions of the save rule, to see boxscores in which pitchers were credited with saves in situations where they would not earn them under the current rule.
See for example the game of April 25, , where Claude Raymond entered the game with a four-run lead in the ninth but was awarded a save anyway: [1]. For games played before , saves have been figured retroactively using the definition.
The save was created as a statistic as a result of a lobbying effort by sportswriter Jerome Holtzman of the Chicago Sun-Times during the s. He argued that traditional pitching statistics - relief wins and losses - were not adequate in capturing the work done by relief specialists and proposed the save as a way of measuring the number of times a relief pitcher was successful in one of the most critical missions that he had to accomplish - preserving a lead.
The Sporting News , a weekly publication for which Holtzman also wrote, began calculating saves several seasons before the scoring rules provided an official definition. The save has become so much an integral part of the contemporary game that a special category of relief pitcher - the closer - has emerged.
Closers rarely enter a game except in save situations. This practice is in marked contrast to earlier patterns of bullpen usage, where the relief ace would be used in all situations where the game was close, either with his team in the lead, or tied, or trailing by one or two runs, and often for two or three innings or more.
Nowadays, closers generally record few victories and often have losing records. This was not the case previously, as pitchers such as Roy Face in , Dick Radatz in or and John Hiller in , would pick up large numbers of victories in addition to saves figured retroactively in the case of those pitching before Another way to illustrate how the usage of top relievers has changed over the past four decades is to compare Hall of Fame reliever Rollie Fingers , who pitched in the s and early s , and Trevor Hoffman , who retired after the season and is second on the all-time list, have been used.
Of Fingers' career saves, entailed pitching two or more innings, including 36 of three or more innings. In contrast, at the end of the season, Hoffman had career saves, but only 7 of two or more innings, and none of three or more.
Fingers obtained of his saves when he entered the game with either the winning or tying run already on base; for Hoffman, only 36 of his saves had come in such situations.
There has been a lot of criticism of how the emergence of the save as the master statistic in evaluating contemporary relief pitchers has affected usage. Modern closers often pitch no more than about 70 innings a season, and in most of the games in which they pitch, their teams are already in the lead. Teams rely increasingly on a group of often unheralded middle relief specialists to hold the lead until the closer enters the game.
The save thus measures only one task asked of relievers. Other jobs, such as keeping a team in the game, getting out of a jam, and pitching in extra innings , are not covered by official statistics. This is why sabermetricians have devised a number of other measurements for relievers that seek to indicate which pitchers have been most successful in relief, whether or not they post gaudy save totals.
A blown save abbreviated BS is charged to a pitcher who enters a game in a save situation but allows the tying run to score. Blown saves were introduced in , but are not an officially recognized statistic although many sources keep track of them. Once a pitcher blows a save, he is no longer eligible to earn a save in that game since the lead that he was trying to "save" has disappeared although he can earn a win if his team regains the lead.
He could, theoretically, earn the save if he moves to another position and resumes pitching at a later point if a save situation is once again in effect.
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