With apologies to Mary Anne Sadlier for the title, I'd like to share some of my recent thoughts and findings related to the ability of major league pitchers to control the opposing hitters' batting average and home run rate on batted balls. I have spent the better part of the past year wrestling with the Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS) concepts postulated by Voros McCracken beginning in 1999 and published on Baseball Prospectus in 2001. McCracken posited that pitchers have little control over the result of batted balls other than home runs.
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