Throughout the season, the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the ...

Throughout the offseason the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the ...

Striking out endlessly, the Angels need contact. A three-time batting champion, Luis Arraez, offers the elite bat control to turn their season around.

I have been fascinated by the evolution of batting averages within the baseball community and think there are real parallels to the ETF ecosystem. Expecting ETFs that track major benchmark indexes to ...

For over a century, it was the unrivaled gold standard among baseball statistics. Batting champions were revered. Everyone basically agreed that a .300 hitter was, in fact, a great hitter. Today, if ...

The strange legacy of baseball’s data revolution is that it aimed to break the sport out of a one-dimensional measure of what makes a great hitter—batting average—and somehow led to a new, even more ...

Ralph Garr says that winning the 1974 National League batting title meant so much to him it “changed his life.” Keith Hernandez beams while discussing his 1979 NL title, especially when he recounts ...

Before we get started, I’d like to thank my boss, editor and friend Brandon Funston for the freedom and confidence in me to take on these types of studies — without honestly knowing what, if anything, ...

“We are praying for our neighbor and baseball friend at Gainesville.” A high school senior is in a coma after he was hit in the head by a baseball bat in the campus batting cages, school officials ...

A popular stat for fantasy baseball managers over the last decade is BABIP (Batting Average Balls in Play). However, this data point isn’t a good reference for determining a player’s batting average.