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May 29, 2011 Between The NumbersThe Emptiest Batting AveragesSabermetricians have long talked about the empty batting average. So who so far this season holds onto the emptiest batting average? We have a stat here at BP, called True Average, that accounts for the totality of a player’s production at the plate, while still being on the familiar scale of batting average. What’s missing from this is a sense of opportunities; the more playing time a player has, the emptier his batting average can really be. To get hits, of course, we just take batting average and multiply by at-bats. If we want to come up with True Hits, we simply take True Average and multiply by… True At-Bats, right? So I took a player’s PAs and multiplied by the MLB at-bats per PA rate, excluding pitchers to come up with a number on the at-bats scale that doesn’t penalize a player for taking a lot of walks, and multiplied that by TAv to come up with True Hits. Now, the players whose actual hits exceed their True Hits by the most:
A few very notable things about this list:
Colin Wyers is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @cwyers
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But can any of the players on this list pitch like Valdez can