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   dproc0219
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   Was looking at Aaron Hill's stats, and noticed just how close his BABIP was to his BA this year -- not sure I've ever seen one like that.

   So almost every ball he put in play ended up as a base hit? Or am I missing something?

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   LeeTro
   Member

   No, 28.9% of the balls he put in play were base hits. That is BABIP.

   BABIP = (H - HR)/(AB-HR-K)

   Using that formula compared to the standard batting average, if a player's HR/(HR+K) is higher than their BA, then their BABIP will be lower than their BA. Pujols is a high-HR, low-K guy, so his BA is .330 and his BABIP is .305. There are others out there; you just have to look for a high HR:K ratio.

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   JoeR43
   Member

   In 1950, Yogi Berra smacked 28 HR's while only K'ing 12 times in 597 PA's. .322 BA, BABIP of .294.

   Heck of a gap.

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   Zachary Klaas
   Member

   Baseball Reference has BABIP as:

   (H - HR) / (AB - HR - K + SacFlies)

   If I understood dproc0219's question correctly, he's asking if this results from something anomalous happening with Hill's HR, K or SacFlies totals, such that all his hits are hits that "put the ball in play".

   Here are the actual numbers for Hill as I have them today:

   (195 - 36) / (678 - 36 - 97 + 4)

   That yields:

   159 / 549 = .2896

   Compare with Batting Average (H/AB):

   195 / 678 = .2876

   The reason for the roughly similar averages is that both the numerator and the denominator happen to drop by the same rough amount of 22-23% from the BA to the BABIP.

   So, no, not all of his hits are "balls in play"...it's that his non-HR hits are in the same ratio to balls in play that his total hits are to his At-Bats.

   Posted 1 month ago #
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   dproc0219
   Member

   Got it, thanks. Not really a stathead like most on here, and didn't realize HRs, Ks, and Sac Flies were taken out of numerator and/or denominator. Probably speaks to my laziness that I didn't look it up myself.

   Do appreciate the information.

   Posted 1 month ago #

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