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Originally Posted by Snowman
I don't know about doubles and triples. I missed that part of your question. I'd have to look at that. My gut would tell me that they likely regress. But HR rates definitely do not regress to league averages.
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What we need, if it doesn't already exist, is a slugging average for balls in play stat.
On plain old SLG against, Maddux over his career was some 55 points below the average. That sounds meaningful? Especially since his BA against was 14 points better than average. A non-statistician would conclude from that he was limiting extra base hits pretty well.