...comparing hitting performance of players who returned from 2016, most improved their slugging percentage and most improved their home run totals while batting averages fell for all but two (Butler improved by 85 points and Sowers improved by 18).
Do you think this means that coaches are teaching hitters to focus on increasing their launch angle? This would lead to fewer hits but a higher proportion of extra-base hits, as is happening in MLB.
Batting averages also tended to fall from 2015 to 2016. This is beginning to look like a trend.
Do you think this means that coaches are teaching hitters to focus on increasing their launch angle? This would lead to fewer hits but a higher proportion of extra-base hits, as is happening in MLB.
Batting averages also tended to fall from 2015 to 2016. This is beginning to look like a trend.