One of the best features of the Cards’ offense last season was its ability to put the ball in play. Their NL-leading .281 batting average was at least partly due to their relatively low, 17.5% K rate – also best in the NL. There’s a lot, of course, that goes into that – pitch recognition, the discipline to take pitches out of the strike zone, and the ability to make contact w/ pitches they do swing at. If you make contact often enough, some of those balls will find holes. The table below illustrates the O-swing % (% of pitches outside the strike zone that a player swings at), the Z-swing % (% of pitches inside the strike zone a player swings at), contact % (% of balls swung at with which the batter made contact), and K rate for the major contributors to the ’08 team.
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