Hechavarria and Solano both have career minor-league on-base percentages of .314, while Brantly's is .336.
He entered Sunday leading the majors with 21 steals to go with his .337 on-base percentage and five triples.
Having never played above Double-A, Bradley hit .419 with a .507 on-base percentage.
The weighted on-base average, a sabermetric measure of offensive performance, of each team's first basemen over that span is .356.
The Moneyball era in baseball values on-base percentage more than it used to, while devaluing stolen bases and batting average.
Whereas old-school coaches were focused on an activity metric batting averages, for example Beane chose to measure and prioritize outcome metrics like on-base percentage.
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As he does so, two of his most impressive career statistics sit on precipices: his batting average (.304) and on-base percentage (.402).
Jeter just wrapped up the worst regular season of his illustrious career with career worst marks for average, on-base, slugging and home runs.
After going 1 for 3 in Sunday's 8-4 loss to the Marlins, Wright leads the National League in both batting average (.400) and on-base percentage (.489).
Baseball rules state a player needs to average 3.1 plate appearances for each of his team's games to become a batting, slugging or on-base percentage champion.
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All three hitters have on-base plus slugging percentages above 1.050.
General Manager Brian Cashman says that as long as Teixeira is hitting 30 homers, 100 RBI, and putting up a mid-.800s on-base plus slugging percentage, that's more than enough.
Rodriguez will turn 37 in July, yet his on-base plus slugging totals have declined for five straight years, from an otherworldly 1.067 in 2007 to an above-average .823 last season.
Leading the bunch is Minnesota's Justin Morneau, whose .342 batting average, 18 homers and 1.056 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) makes him baseball's most productive player during the first half of 2010.
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For the moment, it's the socks used, game-worn (but washed) outer socks that come up to the knee, and Teixeira has seen his on-base plus slugging percentage rise 60 points since he put Sabathia's on.
Rather than rely on dated but widely accepted measures of performance, like runs batted in and batting average, people like Beane used the new less obvious measures, like on-base percentage, to identify under-valued talent.
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What thrills the breed of scientifically minded baseball nuts known as sabermetricians is that Williams got on base an astounding forty-eight per cent of the time (he walked a lot), the highest on-base percentage in baseball history.
From the old school (home runs, batting average, runs batted in, wins, earned run average) to the money ball school (on-base percentage, slugging percentage, wins over replacement player), there's more to feed the stat geek's appetite than ever.
Hitters were measured by six major offensive categories: batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, home runs, runs batted in and extra base hits (homers and extra base hits, since they're largely absorbed by slugging percentage, were given less weight).
The main problem is obvious: Speedy outfielder Brett Gardner has been on the disabled list for all of May with elbow trouble, depriving the lineup of an on-base threat and a consistent 50-steal man who puts pressure on pitchers and gives the offense a different look.
It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.
But the team holds the best record in baseball (along with the Cincinnati Reds), and it features a 19 year old (Bryce Harper) who, according to Tom Boswell of The Washington Post, was the best offensive player in baseball since August 29, leading the league in runs, extra-base hits, and on-base-plus-slugging percentage (1.106) with 10 homers.
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Los Angeles extended the margin to 7-0 in the fourth, scoring four runs on five extra-base hits.
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The KDDI system, is able to detect more complex behaviour by using analytical software - held on a server back at base - to match patterns of common movements.
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