Your point certainly has merit to it, especially when you begin to take pitch counts into account. Low BA/High OBP guys have value in a lineup, usually at the top where they have low risk for...
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Your point certainly has merit to it, especially when you begin to take pitch counts into account. Low BA/High OBP guys have value in a lineup, usually at the top where they have low risk for...
To truly evaluate hitters, you really need to go beyond just BA and OBP (which is very easy now with sabermetrics), but for the sake of this discussion we'll assume those are the only 2 stats...