Here's a good question: How come most left handed hitters get 200+ hit seasons and mostly righty's don't?

It’s harder for a left-handed hitter to hit against a left-handed pitcher, and it’s harder for a right-handed hitter to hit against a right-handed pitcher. A curveball or slider thrown by a left-handed pitcher will break down and away from a left-handed hitter, and vice-versa. This makes it harder to hit.

Since there are far more right handed pitchers, left handed batters, like Klein, Ichiro, Boggs, etc., have an advantage in seeing more righties than lefties.

Here are three to chew on:

!. Rogers Hornsby, (7) 200 hit seasons.

2. Steve Garvey, (6) 200 hit seasons.

3. Derek Jeter, (7) 200 hit seasons and counting, but I doubt if he does it again.

Ichiro: 85 % of his hits are singles and about 40 of them are bunts and then he outruns the fielders throws. Didn't work too well last year as he has lost a step or two.

Bogg's: 75 % of his hits were singles although he did draw a lot of walks.

Klein was a force, but the early 1930's were a hitters paradise so a little discount for that. However, Klein was the genuine article and hit with power too.

I guess that left handers have a small advantage by being a step closer to first.

You left out a very good lefty hitter, Tony Gwynn with with (5) 200 hit seasons. Also a great singles hitter as 75 % were singles.

There are more right-handed pitchers and hitters. The lefties have a slightly better advantage, seeing more right-handed pitching than the righties see left-handed pitching. There is the step and a half they have closer to the bag, but that is actually not that much of an advantage except to people like Ichiro. Most left-handed speedsters don't get more than 3 or 4 hits a season that way. The game has a built in advantage to lefties, that's all.

Left-handed hitters generally hit right-handed pitchers better than right-handed hitters do. Since 3/4 of the pitchers are right-handed it gives the left-handed hitters an advantage besides the fact that they are two steps closer to 1st base than right-handed hitters are.

i believe lefties usually have the better match up as they are facing right handed pitchers most of the time. Miggy Cabrera, Michael Young, Dustin Pedroia, and Jose bautista are some righties that i can think of with high averages. But you're right, you usually see the lefties at the top of the league in hits.

Its a numbers of things, having less distance to run to first with momentum already carrying them in that direction, as well as 3rd base is the hot corner therefor by making the better fielders play that position and 1st base easier to pull balls for hits. The amount of mismatched righty vs lefty series of ABs... etc etc

Most left handers get 200+ hits? Really?

Off the top of my head: Because they face right handed pitchers most of the time? i.e. batting facing the pitchers throwing arm diagonally allows them to have extended eye contact with the ball.