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ERA is known as earned run average, a stat used for pitchers. The lower the number, the better he is.
A pitcher can get a loss no matter if the runs are earned or not. This statistic is tracked for the purpose of calculating a pitchers ERA or earned run average it really has nothing to do with a pitchers win loss record.
ERA means Earned Run Average. It is a statistic used for pitchers to calculate how many earned runs the pitcher allows on average over 9 innings (27 outs) pitched
Babe Ruth, pitching for the Boston Red Sox had the best ERA in 1916. It was 1.75. That's a low ERA for people not familiar with the game.
Take how many earn runs they have multiply it by 9 then divide by how many innings they've pitched
For hitters, it means leading your league (AL or NL) in batting average, RBI, and homeruns. For pitchers, it means leading your respective league in ERA, strikeouts, and wins. The last hitter to do it was Carl yastremski in 1967 and Jake peavy did it for pitchers in 2007.
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ERA is known as earned run average, a stat used for pitchers. The lower the number, the better he is.
Great Question! You'd have to go all the way back to 1945, the last time the Cubs got into the World Series. Ray Prim led the National League with a 2.40 ERA. His teammate, Claude Passeau was runner-up with a 2.46 ERA.However, this wasn't good enough to lead the ERA in the majors that year. There were 4 pitchers from the American League that has better ERA's that that.For the leader of the Majors, you'd have to go back to 1938, when teammates Bill Lee and Charlie Root led the Major League in ERA with a 2.66 and 2.88 respectively.
It's no surprise that the best career ERAs belong to pitchers who played during the so-called "dead ball era". Ed Walsh had a career ERA of 1.82, the lowest of all pitchers with a minimum of 1000 innings pitched; he played from 1904 to 1917. Addie Joss had a career ERA of 1.89 compiled from 1902 to 1910; he is the only other major league pitcher with a career ERA below 2.00 (with at least 1000 IP).
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Gordon Richardson pitched for the Mets from 1965-66 and went 2-4 with an ERA of 5.20
Earned run average(ERA), wins and losses, walks and strikeouts.
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ERA because it shows the statistics of the whole game. WHIP shows more of a pitchers clutch ability.
Through the 2009 season, for starting pitchers that pitched at least 162 innings and qualified for the ERA title, that was Allan Anderson with a 2.45 ERA in 1988.
RHP Edward "Big Ed" Augustine Walsh, who debuted in Major League Baseball MLB) for the American League (AL) Chicago White Sox on May 7, 1904, pitched 14 seasons in MLB -- all but one with the Chicago White Sox -- with a career Win-Loss record of 195-126 in 2964 innings pitched in 430 games (315 games started and 250 complete games). Walsh hold the MLB record for the lowest career ERA, posting a career ERA of 1.82.