Comments on: GB%, LD%, FB% http://www.fangraphs.com/library Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Deuce of Spades http://www.fangraphs.com/library/index.php/offense/batted-ball/#comment-11931 Deuce of Spades Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:34:02 +0000 http://sabrlibrary.com/?page_id=140#comment-11931 Thanks for the answer Steve. Thanks for the answer Steve.

]]> By: Steve Slowinski http://www.fangraphs.com/library/index.php/offense/batted-ball/#comment-11254 Steve Slowinski Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:37:31 +0000 http://sabrlibrary.com/?page_id=140#comment-11254 A couple reasons: 1) Line drive rate is far from perfect. What's the cutoff between a line drive and a looping fly ball? Weak hit bloopers are sometimes classified as "line drives", so you have to keep in mind the data isn't entirely perfect. 2) There's more to hitting for average than just line drives. Yeah, they typically fall in for hits more often than other hits, but you can't ignore a player's GB/FB ratio either. And BABIP plays into it a huge amount. Great question, thanks for asking! A couple reasons:

1) Line drive rate is far from perfect. What’s the cutoff between a line drive and a looping fly ball? Weak hit bloopers are sometimes classified as “line drives”, so you have to keep in mind the data isn’t entirely perfect.

2) There’s more to hitting for average than just line drives. Yeah, they typically fall in for hits more often than other hits, but you can’t ignore a player’s GB/FB ratio either. And BABIP plays into it a huge amount.

Great question, thanks for asking!

]]> By: Deuce of Spades http://www.fangraphs.com/library/index.php/offense/batted-ball/#comment-11220 Deuce of Spades Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:55:45 +0000 http://sabrlibrary.com/?page_id=140#comment-11220 Hi, I had a question about line drive %. I was under the impression that it correlated fairly strongly with BA, but it seems there are some guys like Bartlett and Pennington who have pretty high LD % and still don't hit for much of an average. Can anyone explain why that is? Hi, I had a question about line drive %. I was under the impression that it correlated fairly strongly with BA, but it seems there are some guys like Bartlett and Pennington who have pretty high LD % and still don’t hit for much of an average. Can anyone explain why that is?

]]> By: gnomez http://www.fangraphs.com/library/index.php/offense/batted-ball/#comment-10805 gnomez Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:19:52 +0000 http://sabrlibrary.com/?page_id=140#comment-10805 Is there anywhere I could find results splits for batted ball types for individual batters (for example, what percentage of Albert Pujols' line drives resulted in HR; what percentage of Josh Hamilton's fly balls resulted in 2B)? Is there anywhere I could find results splits for batted ball types for individual batters (for example, what percentage of Albert Pujols’ line drives resulted in HR; what percentage of Josh Hamilton’s fly balls resulted in 2B)?

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