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I'm Drew Silva.

With me here is Christopher Crawford.

It is Sunday, March 5th.

We're going to continue our category preview series on this episode with a deep dive on

ERA, earned run average.

We've already covered what, run scored, wins, and batting average you guys did on

Saturday?

Yes, sir.

Yeah, do you have like, I don't know, general thoughts, general philosophy on ERA as we get

into this, Chris?

Yeah, you know, it's kind of the most important pitching category, I think, to be honest with you.

Maybe strikeouts honestly should be it, but ERA is such an important one.

And unfortunately, it's such a volatile one because so many things are outside of the pitcher's control with this.

Like you're talking about defense. And I think ERA is going to be at least a little bit difference now that we're

talking about the limiting of shifts. But really, my hope is that the guys who miss a lot of

bats are going to have the low ERAs. And some of it I have to look at to home run rates because

there are an awful lot of guys who can strike out an awful lot of guys who also give up a lot of home runs. It usually, it goes, doesn't go completely hand in hand, but you do have to be at least a little bit cognizant of it. But really, I'm just hoping that those dudes who can miss a lot of bats are going to end up giving up the fewest amount of runs. Is that for you as well? Yeah. I mean, it's an imperfect stat, right? But no stat is perfect, really. Like war tries,

like Loba tries. And ERA does try. Like generally by the end of the year, like you said,

the leaders in that category among starters, like the top

10, that's usually going to consist of the best starting pitchers of baseball. Or it gets pretty

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