Swinging Outside the Zone

Dan Uggla leads the Marlins position players in plate discipline when measured by swinging outside the zone percentage.

Danny only swings at 18.4% of the pitches outside of the strike zone. I guess that is the reason he leads the team in walks with 43.

7 months ago craig 3 comments 0 recs |

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that's very interesting.

It certainly defies the stereotype of the free-swinging, high-strikeout slugger.

by Fishcrazy on Jun 30, 2009 10:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Uggla has always had a decent walk rate

but that is an amazing stat, since it means that he is swinging and missing at a lot of pitches that he should at least be able to foul off. That’’s quite odd

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by Fishfins on Jun 30, 2009 1:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I did a piece on this earlier this month. Consider the league average hitter swings at around 23% of pitches outside the zone and 65% of pitches inside the zone. Uggla is reasonably within the Strike Zone Swing% average, which is good, as it shows a modicum of patience without showing a tendency to waste strikes. However, he’s swinging far below the O-Zone Swing% average, which means his selectivity is way up, a trend you can see in his growing OBP/Isolated Patience.

I’m telling you boys, the more I watch, the more I wish he could hit more line drives instead of getting underneath pitches. .270/.380/500 sounds mighty good in this lineup.

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by SFiercex4 on Jun 30, 2009 4:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs