Re: Bellhorn.
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We're selective about stats that actually matter. Strikeouts, on average, aren't all that much worse than regular outs. I'll be generous and say they're worth .03 runs less than a regular out. That means, if you replace all of Bellhorn's K's with balls in play, 177x.03 = 5.31 runs. Of course, last year, Alfonso Soriano struck out 121 times and Jeff Kent struck out 96 times. This year, Marcus Giles has already struck out 86 times. The best hitting players at every position usually strike out a lot.
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if you replaced all his strikeouts with balls in play about 30% of them would be hits.
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This assumes a random distribution of BIP and that every hitter has the same BIP rates. This is absolutely not the case.
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