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Dec 12, 2014 · Ground balls go for hits more often than fly balls but fly balls go for extra bases much more often when they do drop in for hits. In other words, if you’re a fly ball pitcher, you can usually sustain a below average BABIP, but you might get tagged for a few extra doubles, triples, and homers as a result. Ground ball artists, on the other ...
- Neil Weinberg
Yes, there is the risk for ground balls leading to double plays - in the hierarchy of batted ball outcomes, liners > fly balls > grounders > popups. But a strikeout is ALWAYS an out - and every ball in play at least has a chance to be a non-out. You can still be a great player and strike out a bunch, usually by hitting a ton of bombs.
Jun 18, 2019 · Ground-ballers are hardly home run virgins. The fly-ballers, though, are up from 1.21 last year to 1.38 this year. The MLB average for starting pitchers through Sunday is 1.37, so it’s ...
- Gene Mccaffrey
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Feb 17, 2010 · There is no ideal batted ball distribution, but pitchers who allow a lot of line drives typically perform worse than pitchers who allow lots of fly balls or ground balls. Generally speaking, line drives go for hits most often, ground balls go for hits more often than fly balls, and fly balls are more productive than ground balls when they do go for hits (i.e. extra base hits).
May 16, 2017 · Over the past three seasons, the ratio of ground balls to fly balls in MLB has dropped from 1.34 grounders per fly in 2015 to 1.25 this year. For individual players, the changes are even more ...
Feb 20, 2015 · As it turns out, groundball pitchers not only have lower total pop-up rates because of fewer fly balls, but groundball rate actually has a strong inverse correlation to IFFB% (R = -0.45), meaning that fly balls hit against groundball pitchers are less likely to be pop-ups than if they came against an average or flyball pitcher.
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Mar 14, 2018 · Conventional wisdom suggests ground ball pitchers are superior to fly ball pitchers. Indeed, budding Cincinnati Reds ace Luis Castillo has fantasy (and regular) baseball fans all kinds of excited about not only his whiff-inducing capabilities, having struck out 27 percent of hitters in 2017, but also his worm-killing tendencies, having generated ground balls on almost 60 percent of the balls ...
