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I think it's because BABIP tries to isolate a team's defensive ability to successfully field ground balls and fly balls and get batters out, regardless of a pitcher's ability to strike out a batter. It's a truer approximation of the difference between a high strikeout pitcher and a low strikeout pitcher, all other things being equal.
It doesn't make as much sense for a batter to have a BABIP stat because his isolated actions as a batter are already parsed in enough ways to determine whether he's good at creating base hits vs striking out vs getting on base via BB, HB, or errors.
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