MLEs for Iowa Prospects

[Burt Macklin, FBI]

 

Minorleaguecentral.com, but don't fall into the trap of thinking LD% is worth looking at.

 

Minor league LD% or LD% in general?

 

In general.

 

I'll bite. Why not? Obviously LD% + .120 is very 2007, but there's still some useful information there.

 

It has very little year-to-year correlation, i.e. it's mostly variance and not skill.

 

Yes it's absolutely terrible as a predictive stat (year to year correlation of .22) but it still holds some use as a descriptive stat a la BABIP, though after some reading I'll concede that BABIP is probably the better choice in most situations.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

It's basically reading the same variance as BABIP is.

[Burt Macklin, FBI]

It's basically reading the same variance as BABIP is.

 

Agreed