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... SSI denizens will believe it. I looovv eeeet :- )
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Also in fairness: this ability to "decelerate the bat through the zone" for soft line drives, that is the way that Ichiro and Cano hit soft line drives even when fooled. I'm sure that Ketel Marte doesn't hit .300 so easily, by accident. He's just kinda swatting the ball around out there.
That's fine, but some coupla years ago, we learned that the stat "batting average" wasn't the way to decide who's a good hitter. Marte might well get 4,000 AB's in the majors, but I'm not sure they'll be AB's I'm desperate to push forward.
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G said it better. I deal him and don't look back.