He's played in 16 games so far and has 73 plate appearances, one sacrifice fly and zero walks. 5 home runs and 7 multi-base hits. Seems almost impossible in today's day and age to make it this deep into the season without walking. His OPS+ is 149 so he's not exactly struggling. I don't watch many Brewers games so I'm not overly familiar with him, I guess the young man is just in straight up attack mode at the plate

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Posted by Mason Dixon Swine

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Posted on 4/14/25 at 5:58 pm to IggyReilly

I'm not understanding how this works. Maybe I'm dumb. Does this only work if he doesn't have walks or HBP?

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Posted by WhoDat9090

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Posted on 4/14/25 at 5:59 pm to Mason Dixon Swine

Sacrifice fly doesn’t hurt your batting averages but does reduce your on base percentage

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Posted by Mason Dixon Swine

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Posted on 4/14/25 at 6:01 pm to WhoDat9090

Would fielders choice raise your obp but ding your BA, right?

Eta. Just looked it up. Now I understand the sacrifice explanation. Cool stat. Never heard of this situation before

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Posted by mdomingue

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Posted on 4/14/25 at 6:22 pm to Mason Dixon Swine

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Would fielders choice raise your obp but ding your BA, right?

Nope, a fielder's choice is the same as an out for OBP purposes.

OBP = (Hits + Walks + Hit by Pitch) / (At Bats + Walks + Hit by Pitch + Sacrifice Flies)

Interestingly enough, a successful sacrifice bunt is not used in the OBP calculation.

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