While the overall batting statistics are coming out very close to real life, some players have left/right splits that are just the opposite of their real-life splits. Whats going on?
That doesn’t surprise us, because the number of atbats a player gets against left-handed pitching each year is typically quite small, usually 150 or less. A couple of years ago, we did some research that showed that there’s a lot of randomness in these splits given how small the sample sizes are. We took all players who had at least 50 AB against both left and right handers over a five year period. It turned out that our database contained this information for 1990-1 and 1995-7, so that’s what shown here. The following table shows the difference between players average vsRHP and vsLHP. (To save space, we’ve included only the first part of the list.) A positive number means he had a higher average against righties.
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