Cards on the table: this was originally going to be the luckiest/unluckiest hits according to expected batting average. I opted against it since it turned out to be mostly ground balls and soft liners hit directly into shifts. Boring. You know what’s not boring? Balls getting tattooed.
Now this might shock you, but Josh Bell hits baseballs very hard. The Pirates have a combined 13 batted balls with an exit velocity of at least 112 MPH this year. Bell hit eight of them.
So we’re going to have categories: Bell and the rest of the team.