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Loosely defined, sabermetrics is the study/usage/development of baseball statistics. I get the "metrics" part of the word, and I know what a saber is. But, what do sabers have to do with baseball?
My only idea is that the baseball bat is kind of like a saber, but that seems to be a stretch.
It seems to be an acronym, like SCUBA:
S(ociety for) A(merican) B(aseball) R(esearch) + -metrics.
Source: dictionary.com
