Houston has a terrific rookie, Hunter Pence, who was called up from the minors after the season was started. He currently has 207 at bats and is hitting .353 ......but he's not listed as one of the leading hitters in the NL?
2007-06-25 03:04:49 · 4 answers · asked by Jon K 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
To qualify for the hitting rate championships (batting and slugging), a player needs to accumulate 3.1 plate appearances per team's games played. Over a full 162-game season, this works out to 502 PA.
Pence currently has 215 PA in 50 games. The Astros have played 75 games, meaning he would need 233 PA to be considered a qualifying player. (This doesn't really mean much during the season. His AVG/OBP/SLG are what they are.)
The Astros have 87 games remaining. If Pence plays in all of them, at his current rate of PA accumulation (4.3 PA/game), he would end up with 589 PA in 137 games, more than enough to qualify for the hitting titles.
To just scrape by, he would need to play in 67 more games at the same rate, to finish with 503 PA.
Even if he falls short -- and it doesn't look like he will -- there's an adjustment clause, whereby one's AVG is recalculated by adding the necessary oh-fer, and that new AVG is ranked against other qualifiers (though the actual AVG still stands). Example, if Pence finished with 200 hits in 400 AB and drew 100 walks, finishing with 500 PA, his AVG would be .500 (yow!), but his "qualifying AVG" would be 200 / (400 + 2) == .498, which should still win him the batting title.
2007-06-25 04:10:42 · answer #1 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Initially, I rated this a thumbs down. But...after thinking more about it, maybe it's not that bad of a question. The guys winning batting titles are generally hitting a lot of singles, while the MVP cantidates are hitting dingers. Ichiro got an MVP, but I can't think of too many others that won batting titles AND MVP's in the same year. I officially retract my thumbs down.
2016-03-17 21:27:50 · answer #2 · answered by Maureen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not about at-bats. it is calculate by "plate appearances". You qualify for the title by 3.1 plate appearances times 162 games. BB's, Hit by pitch, sacrifice fly, or bunts, and any other event that brings you to the plate, that would not give you an at bat, is a plate appearance.
2007-06-25 03:14:54 · answer #3 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
3.1 plate appearances per game
2007-06-25 03:15:06 · answer #4 · answered by llk51 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3.1 per team game played.
2007-06-25 04:40:23 · answer #5 · answered by pdmalek 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
an average of 3.2 at bats per game.
2007-06-25 03:08:17 · answer #6 · answered by Twinsfan101 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋