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Steve Bonner over at The Midnight Hour took a closer look at Ichiro's numbers, a topic that cropped up at Joe Morgan's chat. Steve comes up with some great insights into how dependent Ichiro is on his ability to beat out groundball singles.
He compares Ichiro to a number of other batters based on batting average to percent of the "lift" above on-base percentage and by expressing each players hits as a percentage of extra base hits. I won't ruin Steve's final analysis but let's just say that Scratchiro may have a better future ahead of him in the game than the post-30 Ichiro.
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