BATTING: BA-xBA and PX-xPX variances

On Sunday, June 11, MLB teams hit the 60-game mark. (Actually, 12 of the 30 teams hit the 60-game mark; two were at 58, six at 59, eight at 61 and two at 62.)

Sixty games is a sizable chunk of the season, so it seems as good a time as any to review current batters and to use BaseballHQ.com skills and luck metrics to identify possible over-and underperformers.

Batting Average: xBA Overperformers

To begin, we looked at all batters with more than 75 AB YTD, to find those whose BA are well ahead of xBA, indicating a possible correction.

Here are the Top 10:

Batter               BA    xBA    Diff    h%
================   ====   ====   =====   ===
Gentry,Craig       .333   .259   -.074   39%
Hairston,Jerry     .366   .293   -.073  ...

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