Reply to "Moneyball: should prospects work on working walks?"

SluggerDad10,000+ posts

CmassRHPDad posted:
Last spring my son hit .452 but his avg pitch count per AB was under 5.
Then he gets to summer ball and his travel ball coach is all about quality at bats and wants him to go deeper in the counts. Go figure.

Too much either/or thinking it sounds like to me. If you get a pitch that you can hammer, you hammer it, whenever it comes, early in the count or late in the count. Why set out to extend the AB? When the pitcher gets ahead, then and only then, is the (secondary) goal to extend the AB.

3/2/1612:31 PM

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