This is not about the silly proposition advanced by some at the start of the season that baseball had entered a new era where power was not important and that contact was the wave of the future.
But in recent years data analysis has revealed all sorts of matchup considerations that go beyond the traditional lefty-righty platoons. One has been the discovery that fly ball hitters do relatively well against ground ball pitchers.
It seems natural to ask whether hitters with low strikeout rates negate some of the effectiveness of high strikeout pitchers. I'm not aware of any such studies. We'll see a mini experiment in the WS with the Royals hitters against the Mets pitchers.
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