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Yuniesky Betancourt: How Is This Possible?
TEAMS: Seattle Mariners
PLAYERS: Yuniesky Betancourt,  Mike Rivera
Yuniesky Betancourt is a unique player. As the great Rob Neyer pointed out this morning, Betancourt has 0 walks in 25 games this season; a statistic that seems almost hard to believe considering the sabermetric age we live in. After looking at Betancourt's 2009 stats, I noticed that his batting average is actually higher than his OBP. I honestly never thought that this was possible. Almost every baseball player has a higher OBP than batting average because batting Average counts only Hits...
Original Story: http://jorgesaysno.blogspot.com/2009/... Verified_ybn

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  • JoePierre said May 06, 2009

    Thank you, I never knew that Sacrifice flies were charged against the OBP and considered outs.
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