VORP
Noun
Meaning
VORP
(baseball) Acronym of value over replacement player.
Examples
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.
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.