The weighted on-base average, a sabermetric measure of offensive performance, of each team's first basemen over that span is .356.
As he does so, two of his most impressive career statistics sit on precipices: his batting average (.304) and on-base percentage (.402).
Jeter just wrapped up the worst regular season of his illustrious career with career worst marks for average, on-base, slugging and home runs.
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.
Some of the biggest foundations base their grant-giving on a three-year average of their assets.
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).
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.
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.
The Moneyball era in baseball values on-base percentage more than it used to, while devaluing stolen bases and batting average.
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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