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Reply to "What is the new .300?/Here Lies A Man Who Went 4.6/.876/2.61"

The reason fewer are hitting 300 is strikeouts. As the strikeouts went up over the years players hit the ball harder and better causing BABIP going up and also runs. Not striking out is not productive if you do not hit the ball well.

However in the mid 90s power and babip stopped going up an strikeouts continued to rise which caused obp and runs to go down again. Players were offsetting less contact with better contact but at some point a limit was reached but not so for strikeouts.

But BA is still an important thing. Power probably is more important but if you look at the ops leaders more than half of the top20 are above 300 and many others are between 280 abd 300.  The adam dunn kind of productive 230 hitter actually is quite rare, most 240 hitters have low on base percentages.

Now adam dunn might be more productive than a no power no walks 300 hitter but those are actually quite rare in these days were you have to strike the ball hard to get hits, the empty  .300 guy is a thing of the past with only 20% of the 300 hitters last year hitting single digit homers.

Ba itself is not important but it affects both obp and slg a lot, basically average is the difference between prime pujols and dunn.

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