[Syd Thrift]

I think the argument against showing BABIP, not that it's a fantastic one, is that BABIP isn't really a "tool" per se. The five tools (just saying to people who might be reading this as someone who is, perhaps, coming in from Football Manager) are contact, power, speed, range, and arm. As it is, of course, the game has more ratings than that and of course more that you can see, and if you're going to show the Avoid Ks "tool" you really should show BABIP as well. And of course the game shows the 6th "tool" which is eye...

Ideally you'd have lots of other little things like bat speed, pitch selection, aggressiveness, stance, and so on that would add up to Contact or Power or whatever; however, that would represent a very, very different direction than pretty much any baseball game has ever gone (I guess you could argue that FPS Baseball did something vaguely like that, although not really).