except, history disproves that. Every single year the players who have extra high H% (BABIP) almost universally have thier average dip the next season. The notion that luck has nothing to do with baseball stats is absurd, all this is doing is trying to identify who got good luck and who got bad luck. Same thing with ERA, the players with extremely low H% or higher strand rates almost universally see their ERA's inflate the next year, these stats weren't just created at random, they have been proven to have a real correlation to what happens in the game. The majority of players in baseball hover around 29-31% hit rate, there are a few exceptions like extreme slap hitters and guys who hit in extreme hitter parks like colorado but if you compare them to their career rates you get a pretty strong idea of whether a dip/raise in average is for real or just lucky.