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Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07
It's not that a high BABIP automatically equals luck, often times it relates to a guy who is fast (like Dee in that case) or guys who make really hard contact all the time (Miguel Cabrera constantly had high BABIPs from that). However look at Gordon's season by season BABIP and yes, I'm willing to just say luck.
What else do you equate an abnormally high BABIP too (in this case Gordon's 2015 was 50 points higher than his career BABIP) and his next highest season was 30 points lower than 2015's.
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The only way to say without just randomly guessing is to watch every AB and chart it. There could be lots of reasons why balls in play become hits instead of outs besides luck. It could just as easily be launch angle, fly ball rate, or plate approach than it could be luck. In reality, it's most likely a combination of all the reasons batted balls become hits. Luck is only a small part of that equuation.
Ultimately, all that is speculation. One thing that isn't speculation is his positive test.
