I’m not sure that Cap Anson had a super high BABIP. I know Carew is one of the poster children for it (along with Ichiro and Roberto Clemente). For regular cards I’m pretty sure they’re just taken from the season in the game (which is then in turn normalized, so a guy who hits 30 HR in an environment where the league leader hits 50 will have a lower POW than a guy who does the same where 30 HR leads the league). SE are raised a little, I guess, and PEAK from what I gather takes a player’s top ratings from a variety of years.
POW doesn’t necessarily translate to a *lower* BA but when you’re playing nothing but pitchers who will suppress your HR rate, you’ll wind up hitting fewer of them and that in turn means fewer base hits and a lower BA, several steps down the line.
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