Causeway Coast Baseball: Help for reading baseball cards
Help for reading the backs of baseball cards!Reading the back of a baseball card can be confusing for newcomers
for me too!)
Here are all the usual terms used in Baseball
If you have a few letters on your card that you don't understand
look it up here!
Hitters
AB At Bats
BB Bases on balls (walk)
AVG Batting average
CS Caught stealing
2B Doubles
GIDP Ground into double plays
HBP Hit by pitch (Ow!)
H Hits
HRR Home Run Ratio
HR Home Run
IBB Intentional bases on balls
ISO Isolated power
LOB Left on base
OBP On base percentage
OPS On base plus slugging
R Runs
RBI Runs batted in
SF Sacrifice flys
SH Sacrifice flys
S Singles
SLG Slugging percentage
SB% Stolen base percentage
SBR Stolen base runs
SB Stolen bases
SO Strike outs
TB Total bases
3B Tribles
Pitchers
AO Fly out
BB Walks (bases on balls)
BK Balks
CBO Combined shutout
CG Complete games
CGL Complete game losses
ER Earned runs
ERA Earned run average
GF Games finished
GO Ground outs
GOAO Ground outs fly outs ratio
GP Games played
GS Games started
H Hits
HBP Hit by pitch
HR Home runs
IBB Intentional walks
IP Innings pitched
IRA Inherited runs allowed
IPS Innings per start
L Losses
MB9 Baserunners per 9 innings
OBA Opponents batting average
PA Plate appearance
R Runs
RPF Relief failures
RW Relief wins
S/SHO Shutouts
SO Strike outs
SV Saves
SVO Save opportunities
TB Total bases
W Wins
WP Wild pitches
Fielding
A Assists
CS Caught stealing
DP Double plays
E Errors
GP Games played
OFA Outfield assists
PB Passed balls
PK Pickoffs
PO Putouts
SB Stolen bases allowed
TC Total chances
TP Triple plays