Batting Average
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Batting Average was among one of the first baseball statistics created. It is the quotient of hits over at bats.
It has been used as one of the pre-eminent batting statistics, as it is easily computed and has been in use for well over a century. It merely is the empirical probability of a player getting a hit in a given at bat.
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