Highest Career BABIP: Matt Kemp No. 3

rico08 · Jul 28, 2009

This was brought up on the Dodgers' telecast tonight, except their statisticians figured in home runs when they calculated BABIP. Their list, including home runs in the equation, included Ruth, Manny Ramirez, Kemp, and Ryan Howard. All time.

rico08 · Jul 28, 2009

BABIP isn't the grail of stats by any means. Wikipedia sums it up pretty well:

wikipedia said:
In baseball statistics, Batting average on balls in play (abbreviated BABIP) is a statistic measuring the percentage of plate appearances ending with a batted ball in play (excluding home runs) for which the batter is credited with a hit [1]. BABIP is commonly used as a red flag in sabermetric analysis, as a consistently high or low BABIP is hard to maintain - much more so for pitchers than hitters. Therefore, BABIP can be used to spot fluky seasons by pitchers, as those whose BABIPs are extremely high can often be expected to improve in the following season, and those pitchers whose BABIPs are extremely low can often be expected to regress in the following season.

A typical BABIP is .290.[1]

bc2208 · Jul 28, 2009

The list means nothing if home runs are included.

Also you need to have LD/GB/FB splits to get a sense of how many hits are line drives (high babip balls) and how many are dunkers and grounders.

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