A popular stat for fantasy baseball managers over the last decade is BABIP (Batting Average Balls in Play). However, this data point isn’t a good reference for determining a player’s batting average.

I have been fascinated by the evolution of batting averages within the baseball community and think there are real parallels to the ETF ecosystem. Expecting ETFs that track major benchmark indexes to ...

Whether you play baseball for fun, softball on a team, or are a coach yourself, did you know that you could be taking your training to a whole new level? MLB teams don’t rely on the mechanics of the ...

For over a century, it was the unrivaled gold standard among baseball statistics. Batting champions were revered. Everyone basically agreed that a .300 hitter was, in fact, a great hitter. Today, if ...

Before we get started, I’d like to thank my boss, editor and friend Brandon Funston for the freedom and confidence in me to take on these types of studies — without honestly knowing what, if anything, ...

Throughout the offseason the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the ...

SI Fantasy expert Shawn Childs why CTBA (contact batting average) is more useful than BABIP to your fantasy baseball needs! A popular stat for fantasy baseball owners over the last decade is BABIP ...

Cerfolio added that for a minor leaguer to make the adjustment necessary to hit big league pitching, “is the toughest thing to do in sports.” Here are some of the hitting principles that the Guardians ...

The strange legacy of baseball’s data revolution is that it aimed to break the sport out of a one-dimensional measure of what makes a great hitter—batting average—and somehow led to a new, even more ...

SEATTLE — The city is filled with All-Stars and celebrities, but he can walk up and down the streets, and not a soul will recognize him. You won’t find him on TV endorsing your favorite sandwich, ...

Before his team’s highly-anticipated matchup against Colorado State University, Deion Sanders, the University of Colorado’s head football coach, was asked what was the most challenging part of his ...