The Pastime

While perusing the AP wire, I ran across a story about the continuing Bud Selig and Barry Bonds drama, and whether Selig will attend the game where Bonds hits 756, blah, blah, blah. Hidden in this meaningless drama was an amusing little bit of personal information about Bud Selig.
“This is a matter between the Giants […]

After being pointed towards this article on MopUpDuty.com, I started thinking. Just why did the Twinkies have such a high line drive percentage (LD%) last year, and how did they do it while hitting a below-average amount of doubles?
Here’s the leaderboard in the AL for LD% in 2006:

Team
LD%
BABIP

MIN
21.4%
.319

CLE
20.7%
.327

CHA
20.1%
.309

BOS
20.0%
.302

TEX
20.0%
.314

BAL
19.9%
.305

KC
19.8%
.314

TOR
19.5%
.310

OAK
19.4%
.288

DET
19.1%
.312

NYA
19.1%
.319

SEA
18.8%
.302

TB
18.7%
.288

LAA
18.5%
.304

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League
19.7%
.308

I threw in BABIP for fun, just to […]