Using Sabermetrics for Fantasy Baseball Part 8: Batted Ball Distrib... rotoballer.com Mon 2/15/16 6:15 AM

This article references Alex Gordon, Chris Young, Giancarlo Stanton, Jarrod Dyson, Lorenzo Cain and more! The league average batted ball distribution in 2015 was 20.9% liners, 45.3% grounders and 33.8% flies. Last time, we took a brief look at how pitchers may specialize in either grounders or fly balls. Fly ball pitchers have a BABIP advantage over their ground ball-inducing counterparts, since fly balls (.129 BABIP in 2015) consistently have lower BABIPs than worm killers (.236). Yet most fantasy owners prefer to roster ground ball pitchers, to the point that GB% is frequently cited as a periphera[...]Keep on reading: Using Sabermetrics for Fantasy Baseball Part 8: Batted Ball Distribution for Pitchers