True .300 Hitters

this is always one of my favorite segments and it sort of addresses my current fantasy baseball issue

i'm in a 16-team keeper league with an emphasis on AVG w/ a lot of ABs (i'll spare you the specifics, but this strategy helped me dominate my league last year). we can only keep 3 players and i know i'm keeping ichiro, but i have to decide between rios, aramis, c. hart, cano, derrek lee, and tulowitzki

i could go on forever making a point for each, but if you could at least help me prioritize hart and rios that would be a huge help (i noticed hart high on your personal ranks and rios' september concerns me)

I know this is more like a quick-and-dirty look, but it should be noted that this is ignoring power and speed, both of which should increase batting average potential.

In addition, it ignores batted ball types (something that is rather consistent year-to-year)- a groundball goes for a hit more often than a flyball, so you'd expect groundball hitters to have a higher average, all else equal.

mkooljr1 - "groundball goes for a hit more often than a flyball" is that true because 'flyball' does not include line drives

I like this conversation guys. Here is the expanded list of LD% and GB% that i pulled off Hardball Times. The first number their BA, next is LD% and last is GB%. Sorry for the formatting, but it requires html, which I am sorely lacking at.

NAME AVG LD% GB%
Magglio Ordonez 0.363 19.2 42.0
Chipper Jones 0.337 19.2 43.6
Albert Pujols 0.327 18.6 42.1
Vladimir Guerrero 0.324 15.6 48.5
Todd Helton 0.32 24.1 39.6
Jose Vidro 0.314 19.5 50.8
Scott Hatteberg 0.31 23.2 42.7
Kenny Lofton 0.303 20.3 39.2
Jeff Kent 0.302 17.5 37.8
Victor Martinez 0.301 20.1 41.6
Garrett Atkins 0.301 24.5 31.4
Casey Kotchman 0.296 16.0 50.6
Joe Mauer 0.292 17.9 54.5
Brian Roberts 0.29 19.5 35.8
Mike Lamb 0.289 17.9 43.3
Hideki Matsui 0.285 17.1 42.6
Josh Bard 0.285 18.3 51.8
Conor Jackson 0.284 19.8 37.5
Andre Ethier 0.284 18.1 46.3
Jose Reyes 0.28 18.5 41.6
Luis Gonzalez 0.278 18.5 42.2
Barry Bonds 0.276 17.4 39.9
Brian Giles 0.271 19.1 40.4
Justin Morneau 0.271 15.9 44.7
Johnny Damon 0.27 18.3 48.3
Gary Sheffield 0.265 16.8 40.8
Marco Scutaro 0.26 20.0 39.3
David DeJesus 0.26 18.7 45.6
Carlos Ruiz 0.259 18.2 46.2
Brian Schneider 0.235 15.4 48.3

Well if anyone is still reading the comments, yes, a groundball goes for a hit more often than a flyball.

Nolan- like you said GB pitchers are usually more successful, all else equal, because a GB can't go for a HR (other than an inside-th-parker).

And correct- flyballs do not include line drives, which go for a hit the most, obviously, and which batters seem to have some control over their rate as well.