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Reply to "Walks"

Walks are an indication of plate discipline.  Swinging at hittable strikes is the key to good hitting.  If a batter can control the zone and take advantage of forcing pitchers to "come in" you have a ballplayer on your hands.

The flip side of this is the "hope" guys.  They hope to walk, they hope to hit the ball etc.

From a defensive perspective - a wild pitcher sucks the air out of a team.  How many times to you see a pitcher go deep in counts and the team behind him starts standing up, spinning their heads etc.  A couple of walks followed by defensive misplays has created more blowouts by far than a team stringing 5 or 6 hits together. 

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