PHOENIX — The all-time record for strikeouts in a single season has been broken in each consecutive year for the past decade, and Major League Baseball is on pace to break that mark once again. Last year, MLB teams combined to whiff a record 40,104 times, continuing a yearly trend of steady record-breaking that dates back to 2008. At the […]
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Two Diamondbacks Among Those Receiving Toughest Called Third Strikes
PHOENIX — With the advancement of sports analytics in Major League Baseball, virtually every statistic imaginable has a resource. Exit velocities and launch angles have dominated the discussion during a new wave of home run power, but even stats as rudimentary as balls and strikes have gained added meaning. In the case of two Arizona Diamondbacks sluggers, they’ve been on […]
