Craig R. Wright

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Craig R. Wright is a baseball writer and major proponent of sabermetrics.

He wrote the The Diamond Appraised (1989) with Tom House^[1] and was the first person associated with sabermetrics to work in the front office of a major league team when he worked for the Texas Rangers in the 1980s^[2]. After The Diamond Appraised was translated into Japanese, he worked with the Hanshin Tigers in Japan.

One of Wright's notable contributions to sabermetrics is the catcher's ERA (CERA), the ERA that pitchers who pitch to a specific catcher have.^[3] In The Diamond Appraised, Wright was the first to give a sabermetric perpsective on many issues within baseball, including the optimal way to utilize a bullpen and pitching rotation, how to better develop pitchers so that they are primed for future success, the significance of home field advantage, and the effects of ballparks on teams and players.

In that same book he made an argument that Honus Wagner deserves to be regarded as the best baseball player of all time.