r/baseball • u/BathroomSalty6325 New York Yankees • 8h ago

Video [Highlight] Cooper Pratt gets some serious airtime to rob Merrill of a hit with a leaping grab!

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u/DumbNutter 8h ago

.940 xBA. Merrill regularly gets robbed like this btw. Pretty unlucky player.

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u/samiam0295 Milwaukee Brewers 8h ago

Babip is slightly above league average

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u/doublegoldendragon Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago

Both things can be true

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u/jujubats10 Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago edited 8h ago

That doesn’t mean he isn’t unlucky. You can’t just say league average BABIP means his batted ball luck is fine. You have to analyzed the batted ball quality

His difference between his batting average and expected average is -16 points. Only 20 qualified hitters in baseball had a bigger difference