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      • Line-drive rate represents the percentage of balls hit into the field of play that are characterized as line drives. Each ball that is hit into the field of play is characterized as a line drive, a fly ball, a ground ball or a pop-up. Line-drive rate can be used as a metric to evaluate both hitters and pitchers.
  1. 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...

  2. Feb 26, 2014 · In theory, line drive rate is a great statistic. Line drives result in hits far more frequently than any other type of batted ball, and thus measuring the frequency at which a hitter sprays a...

  3. Feb 8, 2022 · Line Drive % (LD%) measures how often a batter hits a line drive (or pitcher induces a line drive). 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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  4. The lists below are a complete glossary of all of the statistics in baseball and these lists are split up into two sections – the “Standard Baseball Statistics” section and the “Advanced Baseball Statistics” section.

  5. 45% of batted balls were groundballs, 36% were flyballs and 19% were line drives. But line drives were much more likely to become hits than groundballs and flyballs, while flyballs were most...

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  7. May 28, 2015 · Individually, they stand for line drive percentage, groundball percentage, and fly ball percentage. These stats express the amount of balls put into play as ground balls, line drives, or fly...

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