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Offline Terpfan76

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Re: Stats. Giggity!
« Reply #125: December 30, 2013, 07:56:56 AM »
Because K's for a pitcher are vastly superior to pitch to contact. A K is almost a guarantee of an out. With contact, you are relying on your defense to make a stop and typically the defense gets 70% of the balls, so .300 of the time its a hit. Plus K's are even more important with men on base since you can't advance them on the K.

Sure you can, third strike gets away from the catcher allowing runner to advance or even score... Strike out pitchers tend to throw a lot more pitches though. Greg Maddux made a career of pitching to contact.