Make no mistake, Jose Iglesias will always get paid for his work with the glove. We've seen one highlight reel play after another since the Tigers traded for him in July of 2013. However, a .300 hitter he is not. Iglesias' hot start this spring has been due to some exceptional luck.
Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is one of my favorite baseball statistics. I won't bore you with the definition here since it's basically exactly what it sounds like. To make things easy here though, the league average BABIP is .