Batting Ratings

Batting Ratings ratings help determine thea batter's offensive skills, abilities,skills and ultimately the results that a batter will experienceperformance when hethey stepscome up to the batter's boxbat or takestake a lead at first base.

Discipline (DI)

Discipline reflects howa wellbatter's theability batter canto recognize balls and strikes,strikes and whether they arebe patient enoughin choosing which pitches to swing atat. goodA pitches only.higher DI hasmeans a dramatic effect onmore walks and afewer lesserstrikeouts, effectpotentially on strikeouts (usually on called strikes). High Discipline does not necessarily meanincreasing the player hits better - but it does mean their on-base percentagepercentage. willIt bealso aaffects lotthe higher.likelihood Also,of Discipline makes them a little more (or less) likely to begetting hit by a pitch, since they are taking more (or less) pitches.

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Famous players with high Discipline: Rickey Henderson, Joe Morgan

Contact (CN)

Contact reflects how well the batter can make contact when he decides to swing. Whereas Discipline has a big effect on walks and a small effect on strikeouts, Contact doescan have the opposite effect of Discipline - dramatically affectinglowering a player's strikeout chances, and slightly affecting their walk chances. Contact has a very small effect on their ability to get a single or double (sometimes just making contact is enough), and has a slight effect on the Ground Ball/Fly Ball ratio (high contact batters will keep the ball down a little better). A Givebatter the average player awith high CN andimproves he'stheir likelybatting to come in with improved AVGaverage and OBP.on-base Bearpercentage. in mind however, those improvements come at a cost, asHowever, more outsballs in play willalso mean morea chanceshigher forchance of grounding into double-plays.double plays.

Famous players with high Contact: Tony Gwynn, Joe DiMaggio

Batting (BA)

Batting reflectsindicates howa well the batter hits for average. This has the most pronounced influence over thebatter's ability to hit for average. It strongly influences the number of singles and doubles,doubles and has a slight influenceeffect overon the tripletriples and home run totals.runs. Batting also hasslightly a small influence overaffects walks and strikeoutsstrikeouts, -but thenot higheras thesignificantly Batting,as the less strikeoutsDI and more walks, though not nearly to the degree that DI/CN affect those outcomes.CN. GB/FB ratio is also affected by this - again, presuming that when a player hits for average they tend to keep the ball down a little better. A An average playerbatter with a high BA gets significantly betterimproves AVGtheir batting average and OBP.on-base percentage. (Note that the increase in OBP is primarily due to the increase in batting average.)

Famous players with high Batting: Wade Boggs, Ted Williams

Slugging (SL)

Slugging reflects howa wellbatter's thepower batterhitting hitsability. SL is crucial for power. If you wanthitting home runs,runs youas want SL. Slugging basicallyit converts singles tointo extra-base hits without increasingsignificantly impacting the overall batting averageaverage. much.A Thinkhigher ofSL aoften .330leads hitter with 10 HRs and a .330 hitter with 40 HRs. Neither player hadto more hits, but the 40 HR guy simply had less singles (and maybe doubles) and more home runs. High Slugging also affects walks becausesince pitchers try to pitchavoid aroundpower hitters. However, power hitters more often. These players also tend to have more strikeouts becausedue theyto misstheir thefocus ballon a little more often when swinginghitting for thepower. fences. Many highHigh SL players often have a low GB/FBground ratio, since the home run shots that don't quite make it tend to be flyball/fly ball outs. The average Joe will see a marked increase in homeruns with high SL. ratio.

Famous players with high Slugging: Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron

Speed (SP)

Speed reflects how well and how fast a playerplayer's runsrunning ability on the bases.bases, SPincluding is not just a measure oftheir raw speed - it's a combination of speed plusand baserunning instincts. Aside from the obvious influence on stolen bases, Speed willspeed also influence the rate and success of a playerimpacts taking extra bases, tagging up, and breaking up double plays. . The average player will attempt to steal approximately every 1 in 16 chances. A player with SP=100 will steal about 1 in 2 chances.

Famous players with high Speed: Lou Brock, Willie Mays"