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Originally Posted by sixto
Certainly it's impossible that Jim Thome's ability to hit for average is unrelated to his incredible plate patience - but I guess it could be possible that there is no correlation if Jim Thome's patience is an unusual skill. I guess it would have to mean that a player who strikes out less gets enough seeing-eye singles to counterbalance a patient hitter's ability to hit for average? I am with Josh in wanting to see proof of this concept.
But Josh, HR/PA correlates with LD%? I'm not saying it's not true but that's not intuitive to me.
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Adam Dunn = Jim Thome - Exceptional BABIP skill?
Just because 1 person has a skill mix, it does not mean that all people have skills in that same mix or with that same relationship. Jim Thome's ability to take walks may well be translating into his ability to get base hits on balls in play--but it doesn't seem to work for Adam Dunn.
