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Walk Rate | Community Health

Walk Rate | Community Health

Walk rate, also known as base on balls per nine innings (BB/9), is a statistic in baseball that measures the average number of walks a pitcher allows per nine i

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Walk rate, also known as base on balls per nine innings (BB/9), is a statistic in baseball that measures the average number of walks a pitcher allows per nine innings pitched. The walk rate is an important metric for evaluating a pitcher's performance and is often used in conjunction with other statistics, such as strikeout rate and earned run average (ERA).