Affirmative defense. An affirmative defense to a civil lawsuit or criminal charge is a fact or set of facts other than those alleged by the plaintiff or prosecutor which, if proven by the defendant, defeats or mitigates the legal consequences of the defendant's otherwise unlawful conduct.
Quick Answer. In baseball, the acronym WHIP stands for walks plus hits per inning pitched and is a way of measuring the efficacy of a pitcher. WHIP essentially measures the number of base runners allowed by each pitcher and is used in sabermetric player analysis. Continue Reading.
Basic pitch count estimator: used to try to estimate the number of pitches thrown by a pitcher where there is no pitch count data available; Study: The Impact of Pitch Counts and Days of Rest on Performance among Major-League Baseball Pitchers by J.C. Bradbury and Sean Forman; Notes