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Originally Posted by bdawg
I understand what you're trying to say, but it doesn't seem to make much sense from a reality and statistical standpoint. Your batting average for balls in play should be focused solely on the balls you hit into play. Your strikeouts and your home runs shouldn't factor into that, and same with your ratings for strikeouts and your ratings for home runs. It's like rolling a D6 and removing all the 1s and 6s from the results. We remove X outcomes from the results, they don't factor into them.
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If you look at the statistical calculation for the actual BABIP stat from fangraphs, it's calculated using the equation (H-HR)/(AB-K-HR+SF). So yes, striking out more often does empirically improve BABIP by lowering the number in the denominator, and hitting more HR does empirically worsen BABIP by subtracting from both the numerator and the denominator.