Predicting Run Production and Run Prevention in Baseball: The Impact of Sabermetrics

The game of baseball is very popular in many countries, especially the United States, Japan, South Korea, China, and a variety of Central American countries. As a result, the revolution in statistics that began a few decades ago, and continues today, has spearheaded a revolution in the analysis of baseball data and its use in decision making about which players a team should pursue and what value a player has to a baseball team.