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Originally Posted by Snowman
No. They will regress to their own individual expected means, but not to the league averages. Bad pitchers serve up more meatballs than good pitchers. This is not contradictory to the discussion above.
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If a pitcher like Maddux was better at keeping the ball in the park, and/or could limit extra base hits better, then that seems at least some evidence he could in fact control where/how hard the ball was hit against him, even if not reflected in batting average itself. Do you agree?
Take a hypothetical at bat, a bad pitcher hangs a curve and the batter hits it over the wall. Maddux paints the corner with a slider and the batter gets a bloop single off the end of the bat. Same BABIP but different (in most cases) outcome.
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