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I'm siding partially with Sandy here. The .300 BABiP for Ichiro is not unlucky, not because the quality of his line drives is lacking, but because his IFFB% is at 25%. Break it down this way, say you have 100 balls in play:
28 LD you bat 21/28
47 FB/GB you bat 9/47
25 IFFB you bat 1/25
Your grand total BABiP:
.310, and that's assuming good averages on GB/FB, and to an extent IFFB.
When you swing hard and miss slightly, there's high chance of hitting straight down or straight up, and those are 0 chance of hit balls.