List of baseball jargon (V)
- List of baseball jargon (V)
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".
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. [For accessible summaries, see Rob Neyer, "The World According to VORP," [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove06/columns/story?columnist=neyer_rob&id=2751842 ESPN.com] (February 2, 2007) and Derek Jacques, "Prospectus Toolbox: Value Over Replacement Player," [http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=6231 BaseballProspectus.com] (May 15, 2007).]
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List of baseball jargon — This is an alphabetical list of selected unofficial and specialized terms, phrases, and other jargon used in baseball, and their definitions, including illustrative examples for many entries. See also English language idioms derived from baseball … Wikipedia
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