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Originally Posted by Guthrien
Pitchers are rated by BABIP too. BABIP is a useful stat by itself for both because it allows you to get an idea of whether a hitter or pitcher is having bad luck over a short sample. When your lights out reliever has an ERA of 4.90 over 24 innings and you see his BABIP is far above both his and the league average, you know he's having a bad stretch of luck.
It's a skill because batters and pitchers have (often) repeatable averages of this number, but it's probably the best antitode for low/high expectations at times. It makes sense as a stat in OOTP to boost high contact hitters. What accounts for BABIP is probably more than just bat to barrel but it's probably been studied.
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It has been. Broadly it’s mostly influenced by launch angle. Fly balls have the lowest BABIP, line drives the highest, and ground balls in the middle. BABIP generally goes up as LA goes down (to a point). The second most important factor (historically) has been batted ball distribution, because if you hit it in the same place a lot teams would shift. How that changed this year I don’t think has been studied. Speed is another factor because if you run faster then obviously you’d convert more grounders to hits, but like I said double counting speed there doesn’t seem to make sense so I didn’t look at it.