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Huh, yeah, hitting the ball hard instead of hitting it weak as it gives the fielders more time to get both outs. If BABIP is the best indication of hitting it hard or weak though, I'm not really seeing it in OOTP looking at last year's batters. Yeah, they're all 45+/80, but I'd say most hitters with a lot of PA are. Comparing the GIDP leaders with the PA leaders, it looks like the PA leaders have slightly higher BABIP ratings.
And you're also right about avoiding Ks. I hadn't thought of that, but one would think it must be the case as they have more chance of getting out some other way. And looking at last year's leaders again I think I may see a pattern of high avoid K. There's the odd player with 40/80 avoidK among the leaders, but most are 50+. But again, comparing the GIDP leaders to the PA leaders, the PA leaders seem to have even better avoidK.
None of that is scientific, I'm just eyeballing it. I should do some regression analysis on this later.
I find it odd how few players have groundball hitter as their type. I get it, most IRL probably are "normal" or "line drive". I just thought I'd see more GB. FB seem to be the most rare though.
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