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Originally Posted by imjosh
What is going on with Austin Hedges? His power seems legit but he has posted a 0.150 BABIP over 90 PAs now dating back to last year, and posted a 0.200 BABIP over 150 PAs in 2015. Are his hits being his mis-classified or is he just slow as ****?
His LD% is 20%. It seems like his BABIP should be higher than 0.150 with that many line drives.
- Let's say half of his LDs are falling for hits
- Let's say every flyball that he hits is an out if it isnt a homer
- That means his 45% GBs are falling for hits only (5/45) ~= 10% of the time. Wtf
Like cs3 mentioned he is hitting a crapton of pop-ups. For his career, mind you we're talking going back to late 2015 so this is all kind of garbage at this point but
Ground ball BABIP .176
Fly ball BABIP .018
Line drive BABIP .536
He's running bad on all three, GB is in the low .200s and line drives are .650+ usually. Fly balls league average is really bad (like .125) but he will always be much worse given his pop up issue.
If he can get his strikeout rate to the low 20s I think he could be a .240/20 type guy which is still pretty useful at catcher. OBP you gotta stay away unless its a two catcher deal