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Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin
You know who else is a 200K guy in the Bigs?
Aaron Judge.
His best season he struck out 208 times.
In his 3 best seasons in baseball, he's struck out 208 times, 175 times and 171 times.
In other words . . . . . bring on the strikeouts. Don't care.
As long as he produces for this lineup with power numbers consistently, ZERO shits given.
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Obivously, Jac is 6-foot-5 with a big strike zone and he trades swing-and-miss for slug, so strikeouts come with the territory.
He's still going to have more success if his strikeout rate settles in the 27-28% range where sluggers like Gunnar Henderson, Austin Riley and James Wood sit.
Out of the top 30 hitters in wRC in baseball, none of them have a strikeout rate in the 30% range and none in the top 20 are above 28%.
Judge hasn't struck out 200 times since he was a rookie and the key point with him is that he adjusted and dropped his strikeout rate below 22%. He's also an outlier as the best hitter on the planet.