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Sunday, March 09, 2008Mailbag: free swingersPosted by Mike FastWith Dusty Baker recently decrying looking strikeouts as the root of all evil, it made me wonder about them a little myself. It seems like looking K's would indicate a more patient approach at the plate, while swinging K's would come more from over-aggressive hackers... anyway, does THT have the capability to split K's between looking and swinging? I'd be very interested to compare the league leaderboards in each category, or the players who have the highest fractions of their strikeouts by one mode or the other. - Eric J. Mike Fast: I queried my Gameday database and got the following numbers. Caveat: the Gameday database is missing a few strikeouts (about 100 on the season), so these numbers are missing a strikeout or two for a few of these players. Here are the leaders in swinging strikeouts: 158 Ryan Howard 125 Dan Uggla 122 Jhonny Peralta 120 Adrian Gonzalez 120 Brandon Inge 119 Alfonso Soriano 118 Curtis Granderson 118 Adam Dunn 113 Delmon Young 110 Khalil Greene And called strikeouts: 71 Jack Cust 57 Mike Cameron 52 Troy Tulowitzki 48 Pat Burrell 47 B.J. Upton 46 Adam LaRoche 46 Grady Sizemore 46 Adam Dunn 44 Ryan Zimmerman 43 Nick Markakis Highest fraction of strikeouts swinging (40 or more K's): 98% Vladimir Guerrero (61/62) 92% Adrian Beltre (96/104) 92% Alfonso Soriano (119/130) 91% Yuniesky Betancourt (43/47) 91% Carl Crawford (101/111) 91% A.J. Pierzynski (60/66) 91% Jose Molina (39/43) 90% Corey Patterson (57/63) 90% Scott Thorman (62/69) 90% Delmon Young (113/126) Lowest fraction of strikeouts swinging (40 or more K's): 35% Marco Scutaro (14/40) 38% Brian Giles (23/61) 41% Todd Linden (24/59) 44% Barry Bonds (24/54) 45% Rob Bowen (27/60) 49% Willy Taveras (27/55) 51% Josh Bard (29/57) 55% Luis Castillo (24/44) 55% Scott Spiezio (22/40) 56% Jack Cust (91/162) I have the spreadsheet available with all the data if someone wants it. Mike Fast is a Kansas City Royals fan who enjoys investigating baseball questions using data of many sorts. He welcomes questions and comments via e-mail. CommentsLeave a comment:Commenting is not available in this weblog entry. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||