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Originally Posted by TomVeal
Here are some statistics that you find find useful:
During the 2016 regular season, Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs, a very good hitter, came up to bat 699 times. He got base hits 176 times (25.18%). He got a base on balls or was hit by a pitch 93 times (13.30%). He struck out 154 times (22.03%). The other 276 times he hit a fair ball but was put out.
In short, even very skilled batters fail most of the time.
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But he touched or was touched by the ball very often.
Consider;
176 its + 18 (HBP) + 276 outs over 699 PA. That equals touching the ball in 67.2% of his PA. That doesn't include any foul balIs/tips in each PA. Let's say he hit a FB or tip once each 4PA that would add 175 touches making it 645/699 or 92% of his PA resulting in a touch of one kind or another.
If you add fielding stats he handled the ball 455 times excluding errors in 155 games. That's almost 3 per game.
Players touch the ball all the time.
In Bryant's case approx 7 times per game played