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Patience at the Plate

Since the widespread acceptance of “Moneyball” tactics in evaluating the performance of hitters, patience at the plate and a hitter’s more SABR-metric stats such as OBP and SLG have become good general indicators of a hitter’s value. However, check out this article from baseballanalysts.com. It provides some very good general insight as to why some ultra-patient hitters are so bad. (Can anybody say Mark Bellhorn?)

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