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Dave Cameron threw this up on FanGraphs this morning.

In every year from 1995 to 2008, the batting average of balls in play allowed by the home team’s pitchers was lower than the road team’s pitchers.

Fascinating.

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That jerk

Email sent to Dave on February 4th:

Re: Man
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 2:53 PM
From:
“Jeff Sullivan”
To:
“David Cameron”

Pitchers tend to have road BABIPs 5-10 points higher than their home BABIPs. Pitching staffs tailored to the home park, defenders more familiar with the home park conditions, both, or neither?

by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 26, 2009 9:19 AM PST reply actions

That looks shopped.

by Matthew on Feb 26, 2009 9:34 AM PST up reply actions

Your face looks shopped

by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 26, 2009 9:41 AM PST up reply actions

Now, see, that's obviously shopped,

no e-mail client displays e-mail addresses like that.

by Matthew on Feb 26, 2009 9:45 AM PST up reply actions

The point is, Dave's a know-nothing biddy

by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 26, 2009 9:51 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

Instead of bitching about it

You should be trying to put USSM out of buisness

by JI on Feb 26, 2009 10:06 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

I almost threw this up as a FanPost.

Awesome stuff, and intuitive to boot.

by Teej on Feb 26, 2009 11:09 AM PST reply actions

You should have because fanshots suck

by Graham MacAree on Feb 26, 2009 9:40 PM PST up reply actions

I think this is the fourth or fifth time I've even looked down here.

I’m trying to get in the habit.

by Teej on Feb 27, 2009 9:54 AM PST up reply actions

FanPosts are for self-created content or commentary.

FanShots are for linking to other people’s content.

That’s my delineation.

by Matthew on Feb 27, 2009 10:02 AM PST up reply actions

Interesting

check out the link (in comments at fangraphs) to Tom Meagher’s THT article. Looks like the bulk of the BABIP difference is on GBs. Was this true for the M’s last year, or 2007-08?

Is this defensive positioning, home hitters being more comfortable, or some secondary effect from the fact that home hitters K less and BB more?

by marc w on Feb 26, 2009 4:37 PM PST reply actions