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In an Age of Power, Luis Arraez Is Hitting Singles—and Batting .400

Baseball’s analytics movement has often downplayed the simple act of hitting a single to get on base. The Marlins’ Arraez is challenging the new thinking in an old-fashioned way.

Miami Marlins second baseman Luis Arraez has a .400 average . USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con

By Lindsey Adler

June 20, 2023 8:00 am ET

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 homogenous view that power is the only metric that matters.

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In an Age of Power, Luis Arraez Is Hitting Singles—and Batting .400

Baseball’s analytics movement has often downplayed the simple act of hitting a single to get on base. The Marlins’ Arraez is challenging the new thinking in an old-fashioned way.

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