A lot of scorers have a hard time with deciding what a fast runner beating out a throw is. Was a hit or roe. And if you have 2 girls. Player A hits 375 with no ROE and player B with a 365 ba and 8 ROE. Player A’s mom is the score keeper.Using ROE is interesting, especially because of your reasoning (which makes a lot of sense).
Studies have confirmed what should be intuitive: ground ball hitters ROE more, right-handed hitters ROE more, and fast hitters ROE more. (This is for baseball, so I'd imagine that slappers also ROE more, too)
On the other hand, I think RBI would be the very last stat I'd use in determining a hitter's worth. It tells you much more about the quality of the hitters who bat ahead of someone.
With situational stats, you have to be careful with low sample size. Travel ball and especially high school ball have low sample sizes to begin with compared to MLB. How many RISP at-bats does it take before hitting .400 vs. .300 with RISP is statistically significant? Lot of research of MLB stats has generally concluded that clutch hitting is a myth, that hitters show now real consistency from one year to the next at hitting higher than normal in clutch situations. I think much of what we think is a clutch hitter is just as easily luck, opportunity or low sample size.
Maybe there should be a stat for number of pitches fouled off per AB.Yeah, but # of pitches after two strikes depends a lot on the pitcher. Back in 10U when I started coaching with Game Changer, it would give a quality at bat to the girl who didn't swing at 3 balls over her head. Basically, it was rewarding them for stuff that was a bit goofy.
As pitching gets better, I'm sure QAB means more or shows more. But even number of pitches after 2 strikes is odd. If the next pitch is a fastball down the middle, I hope number of pitches after 2 strikes is 1.