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Subject: OT Query: Pitchers' batting averages

  Posted by: Jazz Dreamers - [445551114] Sat, Jun 11, 2005, 15:57
Does anyone know where I could find composite batting averages for all pitchers during a single season (preferably recent)? Or over a certain defined period of time?

I am curious to know what the cumulative batting average of all pitchers is in a typical season.
 
1youngroman
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      Sat, Jun 11, 2005, 17:07 		these are the pitcher-averages of the last 10 years:
YEAR	AVG
1995	0,148
1996	0,148
1997	0,139
1998	0,146
1999	0,147
2000	0,148
2001	0,144
2002	0,148
2003	0,145
2004	0,144
 
2Jazz Dreamers
      ID: 47515811
      Sun, Jun 12, 2005, 14:23 		Cool, thanks for the info.

Okay, now do we think that this means a typical athletic guy in his 20s who played high school baseball would probably hit around .150 in the bigs?
 
3Razor
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      Sun, Jun 12, 2005, 15:19 		No. Anyone capable of making it to the Major League level has supreme athletic ability. If you rounded up all the pitchers in the league, built a time machine, went back in time 25 years and made them all become hitters, I think a good deal of them would still reach the Majors. Hitting .150 off the best pitchers in the world requires a good deal of athletic prowess. Your average high school baseball player would hit about .050. Your average High A player might hit .150 in the bigs, and of course, 98% of high school baseball players aren't good enough to even make High A.
 
4blue hen
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      Sun, Jun 12, 2005, 18:53 		Agree with Razor, strongly. I'd say the best player on your average high school baseball team would be hard pressed to get a hit in 500 at bats.

 
5LiLPeeper
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      Tue, Jun 14, 2005, 17:31 		i sorta agree with razor...but you also hafta take into consideration that over the course of say 500 at bats...you will be facing alot of minor league caliber pitchers, who in turn are a lot of the guys that these high school hitters have grown up hitting against....there are a lot of good young hitters that cant make it because of the surplus of hitters, but could hit a lot of these pitchers that teams gamble on