[Syd Thrift]

I believe people have called the Gap Power rating a hitter’s “line drive rate”, which isn’t 100% true but works as kind of a rubric: the majority of extra base hits in the game come from the hitter’s “card” so to speak. Outside of those I think singles are big mishmash of “free” plays and failed fielding chances (and infield singles are something like 40% of all singles both IRL and in the game so watch out for that).

I’m of the opinion though that the game is in fact trying to impart information from the animations and types of results. A ball that looks like an out but flies over the head of a CF is I’m pretty positive a missed play by that fielder and likewise I think every infield single is at some level a missed play by whoever initially got the ball. Many times those are very low percentage chance plays (maybe even Impossible, which I’m capitalizing for a reason) but there is a chance and it improves with the quality of range or arm.

If you go into an individual fielder’s stats and look at their expanded fielding stats you’ll actually see a list of chance “types” from Routine to Impossible, and you’ll see that the better the fielder, the higher their percentages are across the board. The game unfortunately hides what chance “type” we see in the game.