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Old 04-11-2013, 09:05 AM   #2733
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I'm not as good with the advanced numbers. What is a good BABIP and what is bad?
Batting Average on Balls in Play. It measures luck. Generally, major league hitters are somewhere between .290 and .310 when they put the ball in play, league-wide. It varies slightly based on year. If you look at a hitter's line drive percentage, you generally can add about 12 percent percent and a get a good idea of what average a hitter should post with AVERAGE luck.

So, a guy who hits line drives 18 percent of the time should hit .300, basically, with normal luck.

A .280 BABIP is pretty low, especially for a guy like Jeffries (who sprayed a 22% LD rate in 1993)

Now, for a guy that was only hitting line drives about 15 percent of the time, it would be pretty normal.
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