Of all the new baseball insights that HITf/x will bring, both the simplest and most exciting to me is being able to tell between a fluke hit and quality contact. One of the great leaps in modern baseball analysis has been trying to look past the wild short-term fluctuations in results to look how a player is really performing at in areas they can control. Until now, as soon as a ball leaves the bat, we have to use huge generalizations like fly ball, line drive, and ground ball rates to guess at how well a batter has succeeded in making solid contact.
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