TRIVIA TIME: 50 HR Club

[Peter_Spaeth]

Interesting. Wouldn't having a great eye for the strike zone be consistent with both lots of walks and few Ks?

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Interesting. Wouldn't having a great eye for the strike zone be consistent with both lots of walks and few Ks?

A lot of low strikeout guys with great eyes would rather put the ball into play, rather then risk getting caught looking for a strikeout.

When you're THAT averse to striking out, you are generally protecting the zone at all costs.

To be clear, not many players (none off the top of my head) was as averse to striking out as Joe Sewell ...but for every Joe Sewell, Ted Williams or Wade Boggs, there's several more Yogi Berra's, Don Mattingly's, Joe Dimaggio's, Ichiro Suzuki's and Tony Gwynn's who are more likely to put the ball in play eventually, then take the walk.

Also, to be clear, Joe Sewell was not exactly a walk machine either. 1923 was definitely one of his better years as far as that's concerned.

[jethrod3]

I had to check on my man Ted Williams. He never hit 50 HRs in a season but in 1941 he hit 37 HRs against only 27 strikeouts. And he was walked 147 times!!

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by jethrod3

I had to check on my man Ted Williams. He never hit 50 HRs in a season but in 1941 he hit 37 HRs against only 27 strikeouts. And he was walked 147 times!!

Very few current players accumulate more walks than strikeouts.


I think Pujols and Soto are two of those very few.


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[frankbmd]

Nellie Fox almost never struck out and almost never walked for his entire career.
I wonder if he could do that in today’s game.