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Submitted by Trieu Truong, Jul 23, 2007 02:23

NL Batting Average: .262
NL Batting Average w/ RISP and 2 outs: .238 (cited in article)

Why is there such a large discrepancy here? What explains this? Doesn't the RISP/2-outs situation just provide a random sampling of at bats? And if you take a random sampling of at bats (assuming a decent-sized sample), shouldn't the average for that sample resemble the total average?

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