in baseball, what is a whip?
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"Walks and Hits per Innings Pitched.  This means the average number of people the pitcher allows on base through a hit or walk per inning.  It is the best indicator (along with ERA) of how good a pitcher is, not wins.\n\nAnything below 1.000 is awesome.  Anything between 1.000 and 1.500 is very good.  Anything above that starts getting worse the higher you go up.\n\nImagine having a 2.000 WHIP.  This means that you allow at least 2 people on base per inning.  This translates into the possibililty of a lot of runs for the opposing team.
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Cut fastballs, when thrown by a right handed pitcher, will move to the left if you are looking behing the pitcher. Vice versa for a left handed pitcher. The pitch comes in hard and straight until about 2 feet away from the hitter then it "cuts" sharply to the left moving only a few inches. Mariano Rivera has the best cut fastball in the game. He throws it almost all the time and runs it in on the hands of left handed hitters and away from the rightys. It works best when up on the zone so you can "saw" hitters off, have them hit the ball on the handle of the bat and not the barrel, which will cause the bat to break, sawing them off.\n\nA "regular" fastball, is a 4 seams fastball and generally is the straightest of any pitch, it should also be the hardest ptich a pitcher can throw. When guys like Bobby Jenks and Brad Lidge throw their fastballs at 100 mph, they are using a 4 seam.
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what the hell does that have to do with baseball.
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Here's one with some info for you.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catcher
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Walks Hits per Inning Pitch. If Johan Santana gives up 5 hits and 2 walks in 8 innings, his WHIP equals:\n\n(5+2)/8=.875
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Roosevelt.\n\nyankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nyy/baseball_basics/nyy_basics_batter.jsp
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It's a curveball or slider that doesn't have the desired curve or slide to it, so it just hangs there like it was a fastball.\nThey use that term when a pitcher tried to throw a slider or curveball and it didn't have any movement to it. In other words, he just threw a bad curveball or slider.
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Sport whipcracking.\nIt's a respected competitive sport in Australia. In fact, during the opening ceremonies at Sydney, 2000, they had a big contingent of whip champions all doing double-handed, two whip cracking in unison.\n\nEither that, or Amish Rake Fights.
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This abbreviation DOES stand for walks and hits per innings pitched.\n\nOne example is Pedro Martinez's WHIP at this point in the season, 1.50. This means he has a combined average of 1.5 walks AND hits per innings pitched.\n\nPedro has 4 hits allowed and has walked 5, which equals 9 total. He has pitched 6 innings, so 6 divided by 9 equals 1.5.\n\nI hope I've helped you!
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i dont know if he's using it as a whip or not but heres a comic strip:\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/comics/060215/cx_peanuts_umedia/20061502
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middle relief pitcher and long relief pitcher, both pretty similar\n\nmiddle relief pitcher is someone who comes in early to relieve the starter in a close game but isn't a setup man or a closer. they are typically pretty good, just not so good that they are saved for the closing role\n\na long relief pitcher also comes into the game early, typically because of the starter getting injured or being ineffective.  they are essentially treated as a second starter.  because they sometimes pitch from the 2nd inning to the 7th, they are called long relievers
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this is called "throwing the ball around the horn".\nit's meant to be rejuvinating for the players in the field.\nit only happens when there are no runners on base.\nwhen the pitcher is doing well and striking out lots of batters, the fielders have a tendency to get bored, even tired faster.  so the catcher will throw the ball down to the third baseman (sometimes they throw the ball "around the horn" starting at first base) when there is a strikeout, and the third baseman throws it to the second baseman or the shortstop, depending on how that particular infield likes to do it.  if you pay close attention, you will notice that the first baseman is usually omitted from this ritual.\nwhen the infielders throw the ball "around the horn" after a strikeout, it only goes to one corner infielder and the two middle infielders.
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All baseball stadiums were made with the home plate on the W side of the stadium.  Thus south was left from home and south was right from home.  If you're standing on the mound, your left are is towards the south.  Here's a link:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southpaw\n\n"The generally accepted origins of the term is from baseball. Ballparks are often designed so that the batter is facing east to avoid the afternoon or evening sun shining in his eyes. This means that left-handed pitchers are throwing from the south side. The first usage is credited to Finley Peter Dunne. However, the Oxford English Dictionary lists a non-baseball citation for "south paw", meaning a punch with the left hand, as early as 1848[8], just three years after the first organized baseball game.\n\nIn boxing a left handed boxer is usually refered to as southpaw. They are often considered a more tricky opponent than the more common right-hander. The term is also used to refer to a stance in which the boxer places his right foot in front of his left."
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The pitcher keeps his back foot on the rubber bar on the pitching mound. He is sideways to the batter and is keeping track of the runner(s) on base. This is done to keep the runners from advancing when the pitcher does his normal throw, which is called pitching out of the windup.
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Why is this question in the BASEBALL category?
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it stands for wild pitch\nwhen a pitcher throws a ball that a catcher cant simply handle\nits a wild pitch
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Usually, to keep him honest, is a brushback pitch, inside.\nPitchers like to keep the player from crowding the plate, and to keep a player's elbows from extending too far, he'll go inside, to force him to step back a few steps.\nRoger Clemens and Nolan Ryan are two good examples of this enforcement.\nThe other time this term has kept up, is when a pitcher goes to a 3-0 count, he'll usually throw something low and outside,  to force a batter to swing, instead of giving a free pass, hence, making the batter stay honest, and not risk a free baserunner.\nBad side effect, is the guy clobbers a homerun, and you just lost the game.