There are many ways to create value for a baseball team as a player. You can do it with your bat, and you can also do that on the field and on the basepaths. Furthermore, there are different ways you can create value within those categories—you can hit a home run or a single, you can throw a baserunner out at the plate or make a diving catch, and you can get a hustle double or a stolen base.
However, not all ways of creating value are equal. Not only do those values have different magnitudes, but they have different frequencies at which they occur.