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mrmopar

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If you want an amazing eye and patience at the plate, check out Joe Sewell. 114 K's career in over 8000 PA. After a "rough" couple years in double digit K's and topping out at a career seasonal high 20 K's, he got it under control and kept under 10 K's a year for the rest of his career!



Game has changed. In 1950 yogi Berra had 656pa and only 12 strike outs.. Unreal


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linuxabuser

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Those old timers didnt deal with 5+ pitchers in a game, special lefty/right matchups or 101+ mph baseballs.

A few of the guys mentioned here would still excel today, but it really isn't a good comparison.
 

bstanwood

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Those old timers didnt deal with 5+ pitchers in a game, special lefty/right matchups or 101+ mph baseballs.

A few of the guys mentioned here would still excel today, but it really isn't a good comparison.

Do you think it's the players or the approach they take? I don't like to compare players in different eras because you're right lots of things change in the game but this is something I think is more of an approach issue rather than a skill issue. If you want to call it an issue at all. Seems like growing stikeout totals don't matter to most people.
 

death2redemptions

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It's pretty interesting how he's a top 10 .OBP with that many k's.

Pitchers probably afraid to throw him anything near the strike zone so he either takes the walk or swings at one of those pitches outside the zone. As a power hitter I imagine it's tough for him to just take a walk when he wants to change the game with one swing of the bat. With that OBP he obviously has good recognition of the strikezone but still tries to get greedy a little too often.

I don't know if this is the case for him (as an AL player I don't see him play often) but that would be my take on how a relatively inexperienced power hitter may end up with a high OBP & high k rate.
 

WCTYSON

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Pitchers probably afraid to throw him anything near the strike zone so he either takes the walk or swings at one of those pitches outside the zone. As a power hitter I imagine it's tough for him to just take a walk when he wants to change the game with one swing of the bat. With that OBP he obviously has good recognition of the strikezone but still tries to get greedy a little too often.

I don't know if this is the case for him (as an AL player I don't see him play often) but that would be my take on how a relatively inexperienced power hitter may end up with a high OBP & high k rate.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/aaron-judge-might-need-another-adjustment/
 

Austin

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What a weird season he's having. Such awful plate discipline, yet he's leading the league in walks.
In the first half he was a triple crown candidate. But since the All-Star break he's hitting .175.
 

bstanwood

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What a weird season he's having. Such awful plate discipline, yet he's leading the league in walks.
In the first half he was a triple crown candidate. But since the All-Star break he's hitting .175.

Professional sports...any sport...is about adjustments. He's still a valuable part of a playoff contending team. Just like Sanchez last year who came out hot, pitchers adjusted. Much to my dismay sooner or later pitchers will find a hole in Devers swing. I wouldn't say judge has bad plate discipline, his swing and miss rate is just too high. He's not swinging at junk because he's still walking alot, just no bat control because he swings too hard.
 

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