Batting averages are near half-century lows. Velocity is at an all-time high. "Run scoring, it’s not easy to do. It’s hard and it’s getting harder,” Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli said. “Pitchers are getting better by the outing.” The major league battin...
Oliva's .328 average made him the first rookie in modern history to win a batting title, and he also paced the AL in hits, runs and doubles. His 374 total bases led the Majors and is tied with Hal Trotsky (1934) for the most by any first-year player. ...
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At the same time, nobody with his perceived profile -- an offensive game personified by batting average -- has ever signed a nine-figure deal. This is as much a bet on Kwan's game evolving slightly, as well as his all-around excellence, as anything, and his career-best .467 slugging...
Batting average is a function of two things: How often you put the ball into play and how often it ends up as a hit when you do. Both functions are on the fritz in contemporary baseball. The rate of balls in play is the inverse way of looking at strikeouts...
William Contreras is looking to be named an All-Star for the second time, though this time, brother Willson won’t be there due to injury. William is leading all NL catchers in batting average (.293) and on-base percentage (.354), and he's behind only Smith in the home run departmen...
We're in an era where batting averages rarely even touch .300, but Judge is hitting .423. No one has hit .400 in a full season since Williams hit .406 in 1941. History dictates that Judge will fall off eventually — his .322 batting average in 2024 was a career-high — but we'...
What this suggests is that the bar for scoring a play as an error has been lowered by quite a bit. In other words, if a ball with a .223 batting average expectation is misplayed, that's going to stand out as an error, right? But one with .254 is murky. That's a fairly well-...
Opposing hitters still don't have much of an answer for Miller's triple-digit fastball and hard slider. The right-hander possesses a 46.7% strikeout rate and has kept batters to a .149 average. They should consider themselves lucky; Miller's expected batting average against is .129....