Batter Up – The Most and Least Consistent Hitters

Keeping your eye on the ball isn’t as easy as it sounds. Batting averages for professional major league baseball players vary widely from year to year. Khris Davis of the Oakland Athletics just made history as the most consistent hitter for any 5-year period.

This consistency stat, called total movement, is calculated by taking the absolute difference of a player’s batting average from one year to the next. Babe Ruth hitting between 1930-1934 is roughly the average for the sample FiveThirtyEight reported on, coming in at about 100 points.

Davis’ total movement is only 4 points. For the past five years his batting average from year to year has virtually gone unchanged. His consistency is remarkable given that he must hit a ball hurled at him at speeds nearing 100mph.

Ronaldo at Juventus – A Tactical Profile

Cristiano Ronaldo has completed a transfer to Juventus, for a fee reportedly in excess of 100 million Euros, including additional fees for youth clubs he supports. The fee is the largest ever paid for a player over 30 years old, and the largest ever paid by an Italian club. Ronaldo is still a world class player, but he joins a squad bristling with others: currently, Juventus can boast World Cup finalist Mario Mandzukic, Paulo Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain, wingers Federico Bernardeschi, Juan Cuadrado and Douglas Costa, and prospects like Marko Pjaca and Moise Kean. So where will Juventus’ new big money signing fit?