List of baseball jargon (V)

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[edit] visiting team

A team playing in another team's home stadium is the "visiting team" — or the "visitors." The visiting team bats in the top half of the inning. A fabled sign at Tiger Stadium on the visitor's clubhouse read "No Visitors Allowed".

[edit] VORP

Main article: VORP

Value Over Replacement Player, Keith Woolner's method of evaluating baseball players. VORP ranks players by comparing their run production (for batters) to that of an imaginary "replacement-level" player that teams can acquire for the league-minimum salary.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ For accessible summaries, see Rob Neyer, "The World According to VORP," ESPN.com (February 2, 2007) and Derek Jacques, "Prospectus Toolbox: Value Over Replacement Player," BaseballProspectus.com (May 15, 2007).