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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Yeah, Power comes into play as well but only to the extent that HRs increase a player's batting average. So, a guy with 40 HR power will see his CON rating raised the equivalent of 40 hits compared to a guy with 0 HR power.
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Do you think the issue is that power just doesn't generate enough HRs, which would then lift BA without effecting BABIP? Just from clicking around the 5 people running Ruth in PeL are on pace as a group to average about a .250/26 HR season. Doesn't really seem to be that different than Aaron or Mays who are 65+ points lower in power. Ruth has 25 points more power than any player in the game, if he is the A+ grade on the curve he should produce A+ HRs in the 40+ range consistently I think. 15 HRs more HRs in 500 ABs is worth 30 points of average. It just seems the way the normalization works and the way ratings are considered squishes the range of 80 to 220 power down to about 20 total HRs.
Or maybe it's like some people have said in this thread, everyone throws as much movement as possible and a lot of people (myself included) suppress HRs with park factors - at some point it just isn't worth trying to run uphill and you just say screw it and run gap hitters out there.