2012 Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team The Huskers out hit the Buckeyes, 9-8, but NU stranded 10 runners on the afternoon and committed three errors in the field. Hitting Pitching Chad Christensen Austin Darby Pat Kelly Kyle Kubat Michael Pritchard Rich Sanguinetti Josh Scheffert Richard Stock 2012 Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team The 2012 Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team was the first season of the program's new head coach Darin Erstad and featured a new coaching staff and a roster that included 12 new players. The Huskers entered their first season of Big Ten baseball after 15 seasons in the Big 12 Conference that included three regular-season titles
Defense independent pitching statistics home runs, and walks (such as groundball rate), have been able to account for many of the BABIP differences that Tippet identified without reintroducing the noise from defense variability. Despite other criticisms, the work by McCracken on DIPS is regarded by many in the sabermetric community as the most important piece of baseball research in many years. As Jonah Keri wrote in 2012, "When Voros McCracken wrote his seminal piece on pitching and defense 11 years ago, he helped change the way people—fans, writers, even general managers—think about run prevention in baseball. Where once we used to throw most of