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Originally Posted by Brad K
What is the use of this number? What is a good BABIP for a pitching staff? How can I use this data to make decisions that improve the team?
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a league average BABIP is usually right around .300 so you can see your babip against on each pitchers profile or if you look at the team info stats deff efficiency is 1.000 - babip so if your defensive efficiency as a team is .711 that means your babip is 1.000 - .711 = .289
hitters with high babips and solid ratings will usually perform much better than .300 babip's sometimes as high as .400+ and the bad hitters can be as low as .180 or so babip's
BABIP takes a lot of at bats to normalize so a guy with the same ratings from age 24-27 years can have 4 years with babips of say .250/.290/.310/.350 even if his ratings don't change so its good to not over react to a few bad months of unlucky/bad babip if a guys ratings haven't changed. Stadium effects can make a huge difference as the NYM/OAK stadiums really hurt offensive production and Coors/Washington really help hitters.