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in this case:
"My position is this: WHEN ... (not "if"), his LD% drops ... WHEN his K-rate rises ... WHEN his BIP rate drops ... his BABIP is going to be "no better" than .295 ... and is, in fact, likely to be worse."
He would probably BABIP .400 :)
Seriously though, I am sure we could find PLENTY of examples of batters that had a ZERO percent LD rate, struck out half the time and put the ball in play only half the time, yet batted .400... OVER ELEVEN GAMES.
Lets just all hope for 3 squibbers for seeing eye singles tonight from Ichiro so his LD% can go down AND his BABIP can go up and we can all just breathe a sigh of relief that the baseball stats normalized :)