In 1924, Vance became just the sixth player in history to throw an immaculate inning, which involves striking out all three batters in an inning on just nine pitches. As a rule of thumb, if you know a pitchers strikeout and walk rates, you know about half of what you need to know to truly understand them as a pitcher. If youre not much for reading, skip to the spreadsheet illustrating the effect of strikeout rate on batting average. When the time comes, I'll know it. Throwing 70-percent strikes is great for a pitcher who is difficult to hit. Pitching is upsetting timing.". WEAK%: % of batted balls weakly hit (fly balls and ground balls) HHB%: % of batted balls that are line drives or hard ground balls. I prefer a strike percentage of at least 60-percent. Throw in a ridiculous HR/AB rate and you have another huge jump in batting average. Odds & lines subject to change. In 2002, 54.2 percent of all pitches were thrown for strikes. Here is the list of K-BB% leaders from 2019. Follow @BlakeMurphyODC To win World. James Gentile writes about baseball at Beyond the Box Score and The Hardball Times.
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