This article is about the Yankees pitching problems and it’s pretty boring. But it says this:
Mussina has generated swinging strikes 11 times this year on 319 pitches. That’s five percent of strikes. At his peak, his rate was over three times that and it was 13 percent as recently as 2006. Last year, it was nine percent.
Well, so what? I mean is there anything great about swinging strike percentage? I guess it’s sexy or something but Wang is at 4% and Kennedy is at 8%, and Pettitte is at like 9%. Does swinging strike percentage correlate to anything in particular, or is this just some sort of cherry picking expedition gone awry?
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