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Saturday, August 13, 2011

BABIP primer

By Tangotiger

A great primer on BABIP, and just a good read all-around even if you’ve had your share of BABIP.

I’d ignore the talk of “Nasty Factor”, because the stringer can be biased. Is he going to give a high Nasty Factor if a hitter hit a liner in the gap? Probably not.

And check out the great splits chart at the end (click to expand):

(9) Comments • 2011/08/14 • Sabermetrics • Batted_Ball

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