I wanted to take a look today at the degree to which the Cards’ hitters were lucky last year after being inspired by Rich Lederer’s page over at Baseball Analysts a couple of days ago. He uses data from THT to tell us that the groundball out rate in 2008 was 74%, the fly ball (non-homer variety) out rate was 84%, and the line drive out rate was 29%. It should surprise no one that most grounders and fly balls (that don’t leave the park) ended up as outs and that most line drives didn’t. In any case, I decided to take a look at the number of groundballs, fly balls, and line drives each Cardinal hit last season to see if we ended up w/ more, or fewer, hits than average. How lucky were they based on their GB%, FB%, and LD%.
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