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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Disagree. Nobody moves up on a strikeout, runners advance all the time on groundouts and of course can score on a sac fly. The flip side I guess is that strikeouts don't result in double plays but I would bet that runners advancing outweighs that. There is a reason the great strikeout pitchers are almost always great pitchers.
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this times a million!
a K is the best result a pitcher can generate in and of himself, any other out is contingent on BABIP and the quality of his defense.