sabermetric
Adjective
Meaning
sabermetric (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to sabermetrics.
Examples
BP at times has been guilty of being too aloof from the sabermetric community, which is something that we're trying to reverse.
GM Sandy Alderson hired Walker in order to get "some Bill James-like stuff that was proprietary to us." citation * Keith Woolner : Creator of VORP, or Value over Replacement Player, is a former writer for sabermetric group/website Baseball Prospectus.
More expansive sabermetric measurements do attempt to incorporate some or all of the abovementioned factors.
For example, a player might be described as being worth 54 offensive runs more than a replacement-level player at the same position over the course of a full season, as the sabermetric statistic VORP can indicate.
More for the historian than the current, everyday reader, this 1985 book takes an earnest approach to evaluating and ranking players according to (at the time) ground-breaking sabermetric measures.