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      • A "soft line drive" is usually one that is hit at the end of the bat, towards the opposite field (i.e towards first base for a right-handed batter or towards third base for a left-hander). A soft line drive that lands just behind the infield for a base hit is known as a bloop hit.
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  1. May 10, 2015 · Quality of Contact Stats (Soft%, Med%, and Hard%) represent the percentage of a hitter or pitcher’s batted balls that have been hit with a certain amount of authority. The percentages will...

  2. Oct 29, 2009 · A "soft line drive" is usually one that is hit at the end of the bat, towards the opposite field (i.e towards first base for a right-handed batter or towards third base for a left-hander). A soft line drive that lands just behind the infield for a base hit is known as a bloop hit.

  3. Jan 24, 2019 · The Line Drive is a well-struck ball that doesn’t hang in the air or skitter along the ground. It by far has the highest average BABIP among batted balls at a whopping .672. Ground Balls fall in between, with a .236 average BABIP.

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  5. Feb 8, 2022 · Line Drives are the best type of batted balls at producing hits. However, since it takes a while to stabilize, we typically need a large sample size in order to tell if an increase in a batter’s LD% is significant.

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  7. Feb 17, 2010 · A line drive produces 1.26 runs per out, while fly balls produce 0.13 runs per out and ground balls produce 0.05 runs per out. In other words, batters want to hit lots of line drives and...

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