This video is the first in a fivepart comprehensive guide to baseball statistics. This first video gives a short history of baseball statistics and then dives into counting stats.

Counting stats are the most basic baseball statistics and are the building blocks of most rate stats and advanced stats. In this video we cover counting stats such as:

At Bats (AB)
Plate Appearances (PA)
Games Started (GS)
Hits (H)
Types of hits (1B, 2B, 3B, HR)
Errors (E)
Fielder's Choice (FC)
Strikeouts (K)
Walks (BB)
Stolen Bases (SB)

This is by no means the full list of stats covered in this video.

The full series will be as follows:

#1: Counting Stats & History (you are here)
#2: Rate Stats and "+" Stats
#3: Defensive Stats (nonStatcast)
#4: Statcast
#5: WAR & Related Stats (and corrections / omissions)