It may come to a surprise to some... but ever since Desmond said he admired Guzman's approach at the plate... I've been tracking their pitches per at-bat.
Pudge is the worst only seeing 3.38 pitches per at-bat.
Guzman is second worst at 3.61
Desmond follows at 3.70
I'd love if Desmond followed Nyjer's approach (4.00) compared to Guzman... but what are you going to do? It's not like we have any say over that.
League average is 3.87 btw.
I thought if I looked up the average for qualified rookies, Desmond would be closer to that average, but that was not the case. Amongst qualified MLB rookies, Desmond had the lowest Pitches/PA (Heyward the highest at 4.46). Not very reliable information, as there are only 6 qualified rookie hitters in the ML right now, but when I changed the minimum PA to 25 there were 23 rookies that qualified. Only Jason Jaso, Mike McCoy, and Brennan Boesch saw less pitches per PA, but Justin Maxwell was #3 with 4.35 P/PA.
