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It's been awhile since I ran numbers on hitters, so my numbers may be off a tad...but when you look at only hitters with a few hundred AB, a batter's BABIP in year one had a predictive value on his BABIP in the following year of roughly .4 or .5, which is a moderate strength (whereas a pitcher's BABIP in year one had correltaion strengths of under well under .1). So, yes, a generic batter appears to have the ability to hit the ball in places they aint, but a generic pitcher has very limited ability to prevent them from doing so.
Again, to me this makes quite a bit of sense. I mean...things like the ability to hit a grounder to the right side of the infield that move runners are obvious examples where hitters can and do exert bat control to put a batted ball into play in specific areas.
This skill is represented in OOTP by the BABIP rating ( which teams with AvoidK and Power to create the "Contact" pseudo-rating).
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