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Originally Posted by jtg51
Not too surprising he threw a hissy fit.
His walk rate is down and his strikeout rate is up, although not by a lot. More importantly, his LD% is 11.4% compared to 20% for his career, which makes his BABIP understandable.
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You need to look at LD %s when you evaluate BABIP otherwise the # is largely meaningless. If you roll over weak ground balls every single at-bat, your BABIP isn't going to be very high no matter what. In before Phildo tells me I'm wrong, but my usual rough approach is LD% + 0.12 = what BABIP should be
so yeah he's running bad, but not as bad as you think