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What is Slugging Percentage?
As the term implies, slugging percentage is baseball’s way of measuring a hitter’s overall power and effectiveness. It’s obviously much easier just to compare home run numbers or RBI’s, but using those statistics alone takes some of the fun out of baseball statistics. Put concisely, slugging percentage is calculated as the total number of bases accumulated by a hitter divided by the number of official at-bats for that particular hitter.
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How to Calculate a Hitter’s Slugging Percentage
The hardest part of calculating slugging percentage is sorting out what counts as an at-bat and what does not. Anytime a batter is walked, hit by a pitch, or sacrifices (bunt or fly ball sacrifice to move a runner to the next base), it is not counted as an at-bat. Everything else (anything from a strike out to a home run) is considered an at-bat. To calculate slugging percentage, divide the total number of bases accrued by a batter, and divide it by the number of at-bats for the hitter. For instance, if a hitter is just beginning the season and his first time to bat he hits a home run, his slugging percentage is 4.000 (4 bases / 1 at bat). If a hitter goes one for three in a game, with one single, his slugging percentage for that game is 0.333 (1 base / 3 at bats). Slugging percentage is usually calculated out to three decimals, such as 0.550.
Baseball and softball season is nearing for many recreation leagues. We’re beginning to get more and more requests for baseball and softball uniforms. Many of our customers don’t understand what possibilities exist and what all is involved in decorating their uniforms, so here’s some information to help out.
One of the most common applications of embroidery is the customization of sports apparel such as adding logos or names to warm-up uniforms, gym bags, or similar items. When a team customizes their warm-ups or uniforms using embroidery, it creates a sense of unity and gives the team a sharper, more professional look. A significant percentage of customers who shop RobbinsSports.com for sports apparel want to have more than just a blank warm-up jacket or a plain duffle bag. To complete their décor, they know that signing their sportswear with their team’s logo is imperative. However, especially for those who have been given the charge of outfitting the team for the first time, the details of what’s involved in adding embroidery to their order are not clear. Here is some helpful information for understanding the process and the pricing for adding customized embroidery to your next sports apparel purchase.
Artwork
If you just want to add personalized names to the left chest of a jacket or to the side of a gym bag, you won’t have to worry much about artwork. However, if you need to have a logo (usually these are done as left chest or full back arrangements on jackets or placed on the side or end of a duffel bag) added to your sports apparel, you should come prepared with a digital copy of the logo you want to use. Most embroiderers charge an artwork fee for any significant changes they have to make to your logo to get it ready for digitizing (see below). If you want your embroiderer to start from scratch to create your logo, be prepared to pay about $100.00 or more, depending upon the complexity of the logo you want.
Digitizing
Digitizing involves transforming a digital image into a file that can be read and interpreted by an embroidery machine. Typical charges for this are about $10 per thousand stitches. So how do you know how many stitches your logo has in it until you get it digitized? Most digitizers can give you a pretty good estimate before they begin digitizing your logo. Getting an estimate on the cost of digitizing your logo will help you keep your expenses within the range you expect when you actually place the order.After you have had a logo digitized, be sure to keep a copy of it on file for the organization you’re representing. Doing so will enable the team to avoid the digitizing expense when placing future orders. Digitizing can become expensive quickly, especially if you are only placing an order for a small number of uniforms, so it’s obviously best to try to avoid that overhead.
Pricing
Pricing with embroidery is most often done based upon the stitch count of your logo, which determines the time it takes for any particular embroidery machine to complete the logo. Usually embroiderers give price breaks according to the quantity you are ordering. Of course the pricing varies from one company to another. Here are some benchmarks. If you want to have a left chest logo put onto a typical windbreaker jacket and you are ordering twelve of them, you’ll likely pay about $5.00-$6.00 per embroidered logo for logos that are under 7,000 stitches. If you are ordering less than that quantity, you may find that your embroiderer charges a setup fee as well. Pricing beyond 7,000 stitches usually goes up on a per thousand basis. You can normally expect to pay an additional $0.50-0.60 per thousand stitches beyond 7,000.
For an order of hundreds of jackets compared to just ten or twelve, you should get a price break from your embroiderer. Most companies will go down to a threshold price (say for instance $3.00 per logo for a 7,000 stitch logo) based upon a certain quantity – say 200 articles. Beyond that number of embroidered logos, the pricing will stay the same no matter how many more you have done.
Lead Times
We find that many of our customers contact us in a rushed hurry, often times asking for miracles. Many times we are able to meet their demands. However, to be a preferred customer, it is best to allow one and a half to two weeks for your order to be embroidered and delivered. Most embroiderers don’t keep an inventory of all the products listed in their catalogs, so you need to plan a few extra days to have those shipped from the manufacturer to your embroiderer. Planning ahead can save you and your embroiderer a lot of headache and stress.
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RobbinsSports.com has been carrying Charles River Apparel clothing since 2003. Charles River Apparel was started in 1983 by Walter Lipsett and, like several other high-quality outdoor apparel companies, is based in New England. Lipsett named Charles River Apparel after the Charles River, located outside of Boston, MA, where he rowed for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Charles River Apparel sells only to distributors, but their prices are competitive with and sometimes even beat those of other manufacturers who sell directly to the public.
One noteworthy feature of Charles River Apparel products is they have a line of high-end “formal” outerwear that is comfortable enough to wear to a ball game but still appropriate to wear to a business meeting, such as their Metro Jacket and Monterey Bay Jacket. Also, their products are especially appealing to organizations who want their logo on the front, back, pocket, etc. of the jacket. Charles River Apparel offers several methods of attaching logos to their products and is licensed with numerous colleges, universities, sporting goods events, and other organizations. Of course they can always add a custom logo to your outerwear, too.
Like any good outerwear company, they offer many sizes and colors of apparel as well as various weights and fabrics, so there is always something appropriate for any weather. We at Robbins Sports value our relationship with Charles River Apparel because of their superior quality, customer service, and variety of products offered. If you haven’t taken a look at their products lately, check them out and see if they have something to fit your needs.
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