The statistical website fivethirtyeight.com has a very interesting article about how the save statistic is ruining baseball. They propose a new stat, the "goose egg" named after Goose Gossage that would replace the save.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/goose-egg-new-save-stat-relief-pitchers/
A goose egg would be earned by the following methods (see below). I personally like it a lot, what do you all think?
A relief pitcher records a goose egg for each inning in which:
- It’s the seventh inning or later;
- At the time the pitcher faces his first batter of the inning:
- His team leads by no more than two runs, or
- The score is tied, or
- The tying run is on base or at bat
- No runs (earned or unearned) are charged to the pitcher in the inning and no inherited runners score while the pitcher is in the game; and
- The pitcher either:
- Records three outs (one inning pitched), or
- Records at least one out, and the number of outs recorded plus the number of inherited runners totals at least three.