Chicks dig the long ball, and Fantasy
owners (and baseball people) love the ground ball. But do we
love the wrong girl? Does throwing ground balls actually
equate to success?
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Should you use ground ball rates to evaluate Fantasy targets? First, let’s review what we do know. We know that in 2012, ground balls resulted in hits 26 percent of the time (.260 when stated as a batting average), and logic tells us ground ball hits are mostly singles. Fly balls were hits 22 percent of the time (.220) last season and about half of those hits were home runs. (Line drives are hits 69 percent of the time, and account for about 20 percent of balls in play.)
Jered Weaver has been successful while maintaining a low GB%. Does he know a secret? Photo credit: Stephen Dunn, Getty Images
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