That means that pitchers who are good at preventing earned runs are also generally good at preventing unearned runs. Of the top 50 pitchers in career (normalized) ERA, 46 of them were better than ...

Therefore, to determine which player is the most skilled, we need to find statistics that better isolate a pitcher's performance. One such stat is Skills-Interactive Earned Run Average (SIERA).

Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at the different factors that can affect earned run average, and why ERA is often not a great stat for projecting future performance.

Top returning Section III baseball pitchers, ranked by 2022 earned run average Updated: Mar. 22, 2023, 1:14 p.m. | Published: Mar. 22, 2023, 12:00 p.m.