Tuesday Trivia: 40 HRs with fewer strikeouts

[Beercan collector]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

So what do we make of it? That today's players are only hitting this many HRs because they're going for broke?

I think so , Somethings changed - Check out the top 50 most strikeouts in a season , they’re all from this century - EXCEPT for Bobby Bonds- who is on there twice .
https://www.baseball-reference.com/l...O_season.shtml
I must be getting old when I think of lots of strikeouts I think Rob Deer

[jayshum]

I think according to analytics, strikeouts are no worse than any other out and are sometimes preferred because it's better to strikeout than to hit into a double play.

[clydepepper]

Well, just for fun, let's figure out the opposite:


Who had the highest strikeout to home run ratio?


Enjoy researching this one...the answer will have a very negative WAR!!


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[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

Well, just for fun, let's figure out the opposite:


Who had the highest strikeout to home run ratio?


Enjoy researching this one...the answer will have a very negative WAR!!


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OK, Austin Jackson had 4 HR's and 170 Strikeouts in 2010 and I'm gonna stop right there.

Don't know if he's the guy you're looking for, as he still somehow had a 5.1 WAR, batted .293 and came in 2nd in Rookie of the Year voting that year.

I'm sure there's a bunch of slap hitters who had 0 or 1 HR's and however many strikeouts to have a much higher ratio than Jackson, but 170 K's to only 4 HR's is pretty impressive to me.