BATTING: BA-xBA and PX-xPX variances
Jun 11 2012
On Sunday, June 11, MLB teams hit the 60-game mark. (Actually, 12 of the 30 teams hit the 60-game mark; two were at 58, six at 59, eight at 61 and two at 62.)
Sixty games is a sizable chunk of the season, so it seems as good a time as any to review current batters and to use BaseballHQ.com skills and luck metrics to identify possible over-and underperformers.
Batting Average: xBA Overperformers
To begin, we looked at all batters with more than 75 AB YTD, to find those whose BA are well ahead of xBA, indicating a possible correction.
Here are the Top 10:
Batter BA xBA Diff h% ================ ==== ==== ===== === Gentry,Craig .333 .259 -.074 39% Hairston,Jerry .366 .293 -.073 ...
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