Eminor3rd Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/colby-rasmu...and-strikeouts/ As a quick aside, look toward the bottom of the table. Four teams in particular project to substantially reduce their strikeout rates. Those teams, compared to themselves in 2014: White Sox: -1.4 standard deviations Giants: -1.4 Braves: -1.6 Red Sox: -1.9 The research also points out that strikeouts aren't really correlated with differences in projected offense, though. Which really seems kind of self-explanatory to me, because obviously the effect of those strikeouts is baked in from the start, but whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 It's not a bad thing though. At the very minimum, it puts more balls in play which will increase the opportunities for hits. If it's an infield fly, it won't matter as much as those are outs 99% of the time too. The White Sox have brought better hitters in, so the reduction in strikeouts shouldn't be much of a revelation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eminor3rd Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 10:26 AM) It's not a bad thing though. At the very minimum, it puts more balls in play which will increase the opportunities for hits. If it's an infield fly, it won't matter as much as those are outs 99% of the time too. The White Sox have brought better hitters in, so the reduction in strikeouts shouldn't be much of a revelation. Yeah, it's just usually such a topic around here, I thought people would be interested in knowing that the team is built to make much more contact than it has recently. A lot of that might just be NOT having Dunn though, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 09:34 AM) Yeah, it's just usually such a topic around here, I thought people would be interested in knowing that the team is built to make much more contact than it has recently. A lot of that might just be NOT having Dunn though, lol. Dunn being replaced by LaRoche is a big one. De Aza being replaced by Cabrera is another big difference too. As we saw with Jeff Keppinger though, merely making contact doesn't guarantee that it's good contact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eminor3rd Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 10:42 AM) Dunn being replaced by LaRoche is a big one. De Aza being replaced by Cabrera is another big difference too. As we saw with Jeff Keppinger though, merely making contact doesn't guarantee that it's good contact. Indeed, indeed. Welp, that was another fun little crirclejerk we just had, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 The biggest example of less strikeouts not automatically meaning more offense is right there in the numbers with the Braves. They are said to possibly have the worst offense in baseball next year, but are also projected to drop their K rate substantially. However, in context, we can see the Sox actually ADDED a few of upgrades offensively, while the Braves removed many of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 10:04 AM) Indeed, indeed. Welp, that was another fun little crirclejerk we just had, lol. I love circlejerks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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