STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- I am absolutely sick of hearing that BABIP -- Batting Average on Balls In Play -- is in any way predictive of how a hitter might be due for regression or progression toward some nebulous "mean." Forget exit velocity, hard-hit percentage, xwOBA or other metrics that can predict a hitter's ability to land a hit much more accurately ... we have a simple roll-up metric that can tell us if a hitter has been lucky or unlucky, flaws be damned!
I mean, I am really just utterly tired of it, if you couldn't tell:
I say we take BABIP, load it into a rocket, and shoot it into the sun
— Jason Rollison (@jrollisonpgh) June 29, 2019
OK. Now that I've properly vented, let me tell you why I loathe it.
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