Comments on: Bibbidi Bobbidi BAbip

By: Doug Fister - OOTP Developments Forums

Doug Fister - OOTP Developments Forums — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:48:33 +0000

[...] Baseball-Reference Blog Blog Archive Bibbidi Bobbidi BAbip Not suprising that Jamie Moyer is up there at .241 Where can we find a year by year view of each pitcher's BABIP? Moyer isn't going to be HoF but he's always excelled at this number, hasn't he? I think he must have been lucky for 3 decades. [...]

By: Lucky or Good? – A Train Baseball

Lucky or Good? – A Train Baseball — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:43:18 +0000

[...] interesting tidbit over the weekend from Steve Lombardi of Was Watching and Baseball-Reference.com, asking if Phil Hughes has been more lucky than good so [...]

By: Kahuna Tuna

Kahuna Tuna — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:50:40 +0000

You can get good results with a high BABIP if you pick off more than one runner per start, as LeBlanc has done.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:46:13 +0000

Wade LeBlanc, #12 on the 2nd list, has an ERA of 1.16 despite a BAbip of .368; if that BAbip regresses toward the mean, he'll be pitching nothing but shutouts. Ryan Rowland-Smith, #14 on the 1st list, would appear to be the anti-LeBlanc.

By: Frank Clingenpeel

Frank Clingenpeel — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:05:43 +0000

This particular stat also reflects how well a pitcher can manipulate a batter -- how well the pitcher can induce a batter to hit toward a certain fielder, or area of the field. For example, Miguel Cuellar and Dave McNally both seemed to induce a LOT of batters to hit grounders toward left -- a literal hitters graveyard hen you consider the chances of successfully hitting anything past Brooks Robinson, Mark Belanger or Luis Aparacio.