http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/11/25/speedathleticism-power/ A blog for sports agents: Discussing sports business news, Sports Law, and other interesting sports related material Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/11/25/speedathleticism-power/comment-page-1/#comment-104717 Paul Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:04:03 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=3059#comment-104717 You bring up good points, but I don't know if I agree that OBP is "highly" affected by speed. There may be a few guys in the league who are a legitimate threat to get an infield hit every time they're up to bat, but even then, an infield hit is still a hit and so speed in this case is more directly correlated to BA and only partially correlated to OBP. It takes a special kind of talent to get an OBP up into the .380 to .420 range. Maybe, I'm missing something. Please enlighten me. You bring up good points, but I don’t know if I agree that OBP is “highly” affected by speed. There may be a few guys in the league who are a legitimate threat to get an infield hit every time they’re up to bat, but even then, an infield hit is still a hit and so speed in this case is more directly correlated to BA and only partially correlated to OBP. It takes a special kind of talent to get an OBP up into the .380 to .420 range. Maybe, I’m missing something. Please enlighten me.

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