His teams consistently ranked near the top of the league in walks and on base percentage.
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Larkin never led the National League in any key offensive categories and only eclipsed .400 in on base percentage twice (1996-1997).
For Billy Beane a thorough vetting meant having a track record showing exceptional ability on a metric such as on base percentage that could help his team win games.
However, in 12 traditional offensive statistics from the 1958 season, Mantle had easily surpassed his opponent from Boston in nine of them including Runs, Hits, Home Runs, Stolen Bases, Batting and On Base Percentage just to name a few.
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Besides accomplishing this historic feat, Larkin also led the Reds during the season in games played (152), plate appearances (627), runs (117), home runs (33), runs batted in (89), on base percentage (.410), slugging percentage (.567) and stolen bases (36).
He entered Sunday leading the majors with 21 steals to go with his .337 on-base percentage and five triples.
Having never played above Double-A, Bradley hit .419 with a .507 on-base percentage.
The Moneyball era in baseball values on-base percentage more than it used to, while devaluing stolen bases and batting average.
Whereas old-school coaches were focused on an activity metric batting averages, for example Beane chose to measure and prioritize outcome metrics like on-base percentage.
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As he does so, two of his most impressive career statistics sit on precipices: his batting average (.304) and on-base percentage (.402).
After going 1 for 3 in Sunday's 8-4 loss to the Marlins, Wright leads the National League in both batting average (.400) and on-base percentage (.489).
Baseball rules state a player needs to average 3.1 plate appearances for each of his team's games to become a batting, slugging or on-base percentage champion.
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But the baseball stats the on-base percentage, wins above replacement, and all those other high-concept figures are pointless if they simply verify empirically what the old-timers already intuit by chewing on their chaw.
Rather than rely on dated but widely accepted measures of performance, like runs batted in and batting average, people like Beane used the new less obvious measures, like on-base percentage, to identify under-valued talent.
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What thrills the breed of scientifically minded baseball nuts known as sabermetricians is that Williams got on base an astounding forty-eight per cent of the time (he walked a lot), the highest on-base percentage in baseball history.
From the old school (home runs, batting average, runs batted in, wins, earned run average) to the money ball school (on-base percentage, slugging percentage, wins over replacement player), there's more to feed the stat geek's appetite than ever.
Hitters were measured by six major offensive categories: batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, home runs, runs batted in and extra base hits (homers and extra base hits, since they're largely absorbed by slugging percentage, were given less weight).
It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.
Mantle had achieved the highest Wins Above Replacement in the American League (9.8) as well as an On Base Plus Slugging Percentage of 1.035.
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For the moment, it's the socks used, game-worn (but washed) outer socks that come up to the knee, and Teixeira has seen his on-base plus slugging percentage rise 60 points since he put Sabathia's on.
But the team holds the best record in baseball (along with the Cincinnati Reds), and it features a 19 year old (Bryce Harper) who, according to Tom Boswell of The Washington Post, was the best offensive player in baseball since August 29, leading the league in runs, extra-base hits, and on-base-plus-slugging percentage (1.106) with 10 homers.
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General Manager Brian Cashman says that as long as Teixeira is hitting 30 homers, 100 RBI, and putting up a mid-.800s on-base plus slugging percentage, that's more than enough.
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Leading the bunch is Minnesota's Justin Morneau, whose .342 batting average, 18 homers and 1.056 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) makes him baseball's most productive player during the first half of 2010.
Before the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008, Libor would have been, on average, about 0.15 percentage points above the Bank of England's base rate (also known as bank rate), Mr Boulger said.
The 2.2-percentage-point reprieve is the result of HHS's decision to base Medicare Advantage payments on the law rather than a political gimmick to favor traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
They're trying to pick off 3, 5, 7 percent, because, see, they know that they can inflict serious damage on the Democratic Party if they peel away that small percentage, because they also have to appeal to their base, which is not black interests.
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