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Originally Posted by RchW
Re the bold it's hard to take any of this seriously when people don't know that when runners are thrown out the passed ball/wild pitch never happened. Passed balls are special errors for catchers, wild pitches special errors for pitchers because they handle the ball so much. The advancing baserunner must be accounted for in the score card.
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I mean, Bayes and all, but instead of assuming the person posting doesn't know what they are talking about it might just be that they meant attempting to advance on what would be a wild pitch/passed ball if they were successful.