Perspective: In modern baseball, the numbers aren’t adding up the way they used to.
and not just because he was above .400 as recently as June 25. It’s because this is not the direction baseball is heading. Hitting has always been hard. In the 2020s, it’s as hard as it has been in a half-century — maybe longer.
Now, batting average long has been outdated as an effective tool to evaluate a player’s offensive contributions because it considers only a very narrow aspect of a player’s game: how often he reaches base via a hit. It doesn’t take into account how regularly he walks or how much power he provides. On-base-plus-slugging percentage is the most accessible number that absorbs both the ability to get on base and the ability to hit for extra bases. It’s much more useful.
Throw in the fact that hitters see the same pitchers less frequently because starters are throwing fewer innings than ever before and that — until this season — many teams employed defensive shifts that positioned fielders in the area a specific hitter was most likely to hit the ball, and the average major league hitter now doesn’t look, statistically, anything like he did over the previous generation.The collective .
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