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Old 07-19-2006, 08:36 AM   #260
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Originally Posted by adichiara
If you do some research you will learn the average Hit% is 30. Anything 3% above or below will significantly effect on the players batting average since in baseball for every 10 balls in play 3 will be hits (simply put, I believe its a tad more complicated but this is off the top of my head). Same effect goes for hitters.
No, it doesn't. The accumulated league average will be around 30%, and yes, that's where we get the standard on BABIP from, but that point does NOT hold on the individual batter side. Batters DO have control over where pitches are hit.

Furthermore, I have no idea where you are getting those hit% numbers from. How can they be so vastly higher than his batting avg?
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