Data on the 70 pitchers inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame
as of the year 2013.
Format
A data frame with 147 observations on the following 32 variables.
Name
Player name
Rk
Unknown
Inducted
Year inducted into Hall of Fame
Yrs
Number of years planed in the Majors
From
First year in the Majors
To
Last year in the Majors
MidCareer
Middle year of player's career
Era
Era of Baseball history in which the player was (for the most part) active.
Values are: 19th century (before 1900), Dead Ball (1900-1919), Lively Ball (1920-1940),
Integration, (1941-1959), Expansion (1960-1975), Free Agency (1976-1992), Long Ball (1993 +).
ASG
Number of All-Star games played
WAR
Wins above replacement
W
Games won
L
Games lost
W.L.
proportion of games won
ERA
Earned run average
G
Games played
GS
Games started
GF
Games finished
CG
Complete games
SHO
Shut-outs
SV
Saves
IP
Innings pitched
H
Hits allowed
R
Runs allowed
ER
Earned Runs allowed
HR
Home Runs allowed
BB
Bases on Balls (number of "walks")
IBB
Intentional walks
SO
Strikeouts
HBP
Hit batter with pitch (?)
BK
Balks
WP
Wild Pitches
BF
Total batters faced
Source
Modified from Marchi and Albert: Analyziing Baseball Data with R, CRC Press 2014.