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How do two team stats relate? Every club on any two of 26 team stats, from one frame — so a stat means the same thing on both axes.

2026 seasonregular season, raw totals

Across 30 clubs, home runs per 9 innings tells you almost nothing about BABIP (average on balls in play) (r = -0.10). The Pirates are the best combination of the two.

Each axis is flipped where lower is better, so the top-right corner is always good on both.

1.01.21.40.2800.2900.3000.310Home runs per 9 innings← worsebetter →BABIP (average on balls in play)← worsebetter →
30 MLB clubs · dashed lines mark the league medianr = -0.10(r² = 0.01)

Every teamordered by combined rank

TeamHR/9BABIP
Pirates0.97.313
Red Sox0.96.293
Angels1.03.297
Brewers1.06.316
Marlins1.08.298
Giants1.01.291
Dodgers1.08.297
Tigers1.05.290
Orioles1.06.286
Cardinals0.99.282
Blue Jays1.05.285
Rays1.25.296
Padres1.13.288
Rockies1.44.306
Yankees1.03.280
White Sox1.12.285
Rangers1.20.291
Braves1.16.286
Royals1.33.291
Guardians1.10.281
Cubs1.44.291
Twins1.17.285
Athletics1.55.292
D-backs1.16.284
Mets1.15.280
Phillies1.20.282
Nationals1.37.287
Mariners1.22.279
Astros1.28.278
Reds1.34.278

How to read it

Dashed lines mark the league median on each axis; the shaded corner is good on both. The dashed diagonal is the least-squares line and r is the correlation across the 30 clubs — thirty points is a small sample, so an r under about 0.35 is within what chance produces. Stats are raw season figures from the MLB Stats API, not adjusted for park or schedule. Mixes contact quality with luck and the defenses faced.