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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.
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...
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...
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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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 balls....
16 hours ago · Wade Miley, for example, had an 18.8% whiff rate, 8th lowest among pitchers with 400 plate appearances in baseball., yet he also had a 3.14 ERA that was up with the elite baseball pitchers because ...
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