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Jun 22, 2013 · Read any fantasy baseball analysis and you’re bound to encounter the hitter strikeout rate (or K-percentage) statistic. “Player A’s strikeout rate has increased from 18% last year to 22% so far this year”. I understand K-percentage is, it’s not complicated to calculate. But I’ve never been able to locate a good explanation of why ...
- Tanner Bell
You may be familiar with K/9 or BB/9 with respect to pitchers, but since batters are much more typically judged on a per PA scale, there’s not much use for a per game strikeout or walk metric for hitters. Why K% and BB%: Generally speaking, K% and BB% tell you something about a player’s plate discipline and contact skills.
May 15, 2018 · After all, a hitter is always trying to make contact, and you need lack of contact on strike three to get a strikeout. So logically, it makes perfect sense that the Contact% is a pure measure of strikeout ability, and K% would regress towards overall non-contact% over time. But it’s still nice to see the data match the theory with such accuracy.
K%, or strikeout rate, is a statistic that measures the percentage of strikeouts compared to the number of plate appearances. For hitters, strikeouts are one of the least desirable outcomes because they don’t lead to any batted balls being put into the field of play. A batter who records excessive strikeouts hinders their overall ability to ...
May 12, 2015 · A strikeout isn’t the worst type of out, so an elevated K% shouldn’t immediately be viewed as a negative, but if a player has a high K% and not the power numbers to back it up there should be ...
May 26, 2014 · Most hitters have a BABIP of about .300. Good hitters will have higher BABIPs, but no one runs hotter than about .380 and no one runs colder than about .250 (other than pitchers). So a good rule ...
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Strikeout rate represents the frequency with which a pitcher strikes out hitters, as determined by total strikeouts divided by total batters faced. The K rate leaderboards are generally made up of the game's best pitchers. However, plenty of pitchers have succeeded with lower strikeout rates, generally because they are able to induce weak contact.
