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In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 is a nearly unachievable goal. The last Major League Baseball (MLB) player to do so, with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox , who hit .406 in 1941. [ 4 ]
The adjusted batting average is a baseball statistic that compensates for factors inherently unique to each individual hitter such as era, home ballpark, pitching trends, rule changes, and handedness; it also counts only the first 8,000 at-bats to account for late career decline.
In cricket, a player's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out.Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player's skill as a batter.
Should Arraez sit for the final two games, Ohtani could win the Triple Crown with the following batting lines: 6-for-8, 6-for-9, 6-for-10, 6-for-11. Going 5-for-7 would tie it.
OBA (or just AVG) – Opponents batting average: hits allowed divided by at-bats faced; PC-ST – An individual pitcher's total game pitches [Pitch Count] and [ST] his no. of strikes thrown within that PC. PIT (or NP) – Pitches thrown (Pitch count) PFR – Power finesse ratio: The sum of strikeouts and walks divided by innings pitched.
In baseball statistics, batting average on balls in play (abbreviated BABIP) is a measurement of how often batted balls result in hits, excluding home runs. [2]
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In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at-bats, through the following formula, where AB is the number of at-bats for a given player, and 1B, 2B, 3B, and HR are the number of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs, respectively: