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Diamondbacks Batting: The Basics

I hope you share my excitement when you learn that in the next few months I will write three articles about batting; the topics will be line drives, homers, and a book review.

First, let’s look at a few top-level guiding principles that will set the table for deeper articles. Second, let’s look at a few top-level statistics that reflect the general skill of the Diamondback batters.

Top Level Principles.

It takes homers and non-homers to win games.

“We need to be, I think, a little more adept one through nine at creating offense even on those days we’re not hitting the ball out of the ballpark.