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Know What the Stat Line
Is Telling You.

Baseball has always kept score in numbers. The numbers got smarter. The explanations did not keep up, and somewhere between batting average and xwOBA a lot of fans were told the modern game was too complicated for them. We do not believe that. This sheet puts every benchmark that matters on two pages: what is poor, what is average, what is elite, and how much playing time a stat needs before you can trust it.

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Page one of the MKDC Baseball Metrics Cheat Sheet showing poor, average, and elite benchmark scales for hitting metrics
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Metrics Benchmarked, Poor to Elite
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Sample-Size Rules: When to Trust a Stat
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Questions to Ask of Any Stat Line
What is on the two pages
Page 1 · Hitting
wOBA, wRC+, ISO, chase rate, exit velocity, barrel rate. One scale each, weak to elite.
Plus how to read any stat line in 30 seconds
Page 2 · Pitching
FIP, xFIP, K-BB%, swinging strike rate, Stuff+, velocity, and the WAR ladder.
Plus how to read an ERA-FIP gap
Sample Sizes
K% steadies in about 60 plate appearances. BABIP takes more than a season. It is all on the sheet.
A hot two weeks is a fact, not yet a skill
The Traps
BABIP luck, park effects, and why batting average keeps fooling smart people.
Minor league benchmarks included
Why it is free

MKDC exists for one reason: to help baseball fans understand the game better than they did yesterday. A reference sheet does that job best when anyone can have it. So there is no gate and no email form standing between you and the download. Print it, share it, hand it to the friend in your league who still thinks RBI is a skill.

Every benchmark on the sheet comes from our metrics handbook, where each stat is explained in plain English with real examples and real players. The sheet is the map. The handbook is the territory.

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