Are The Twins Ahead Of The Curve Here?

[BK432]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/how-corey-dickerson-fits-the-rays-and-the-league/

 

Not a Twins article, per se, but check out the stat in the middle of the article - the Twins and the Rays last year had two of the three seasons in the last 14 seasons with a swing rate increase of 3% or greater.

 

I've been thinking about this is a bit lately, and I wonder if the Twins (and the Rays) are on to something here. With K rates rising meteorically in this league (and the strike zone expanding) it may pay to be a bit more aggressive on hittable pitches rather than wait around and have the count build against you.

 

Just some food for thought, I guess.

[DaveW]

Brunansky was a free swinger, right?

[alarp33]

I'm not sure if it is a conscious organizational decision or not, but considering they were dead last in the American League in OBP, I would say the results weren't great. 

[REPETE]

Rosario alone accounted for a 2% team rise in free swinging...

[BK432]

 

Rosario alone accounted for a 2% team rise in free swinging...

 

Ha! This is probably true.

[Thrylos]

Cannot look at those numbers alone, and something is missing from that discussion.   We are looking at a difference between 44.8% in 2014 and 47.8% in 2015.   3%.  Need to know what the standard deviation is before one can tell whether that difference (6.69%) is even statistically significant, especially when your sample size is 2 (seasons.)

[clone52]

Rosario and Sano played.