Unfortunately, striking out 12 times in a game is like starting the game on offense in the fifth inning. You have reduced the possibility of scoring considerably as a result of wasting 1/2 the offensive innings that your team has for the game. Strikeouts are the easiest out of the game for the defense. . Further, if the team becomes homerun dependent to score. what happens in the games that they don't hit any? The objective of the game of baseball is to score more runs than the other team does. It doesn't make much difference how that gets done. Just so it gets done. To me. a variety of offensive tools/approaches is better than being one dimensional.