This article references Adrian Beltre, Andrew McCutchen, Buster Posey, Chris Johnson, Joey Votto, Jose Abreu, Jose Altuve, Miguel Cabrera, Mike Trout, Robinson Cano, Troy Tulowitzki, Victor Martinez and more! Time to Mash Let's start this article with a disclaimer: predicting batting average is something of a fool's errand. In a nutshell, the problem boils down to sample size. Barring injury, an everyday player will step up to the plate somewhere between 650 and 700 times over the course of a season. Between 60 and 100 of these opportunities are lost to walks, sac flies, sac bunts, and HBP, leaving only about 600 remaining. In a sport with as much in-house randomness as baseball, that sample makes[...]Keep on reading: Top 10 Batting Average Leaders for 2015