http://ballhype.com/mlb/brandon_phillips/ The Web's top Brandon Phillips news, videos, and blogs from BallHype - find more at http://ballhype.com/mlb/brandon_phillips/ en BallHype http://backend.userland.com/rss http://ballhype.com/media/img/ballhype/logo_120x60.png http://ballhype.com/mlb/brandon_phillips/ 120 60 http://ballhype.com/story/bakermetrics_walks_and_aggressive_at_bats/ <p>Team OBP 2008 .319 2007 .335 Number of walks per game 2008 3.5 2007 3.3 I know the knock on Dusty is that he hates OBP, but by going off those numbers it's obvious Dusty preaching more aggressive ABs isn't really doing anything other than having players swinging at pitches they can't hit solidly resulting in more weakly hit balls, less line drives, and ultimately lower batting&nbsp;...</p><p>DunnandDunner posted 11 days ago from www.dunnanddunner.com <a href="http://ballhype.com/go/3097875/" rel="nofollow">[link]</a></p><p>Find more top sports news, videos, and blogs on BallHype: <a href="http://ballhype.com/mlb/">MLB</a>, <a href="http://ballhype.com/mlb/dusty_baker/">Dusty Baker</a>, <a href="http://ballhype.com/mlb/edwin_encarnacion/">Edwin Encarnacion</a>, <a href="http://ballhype.com/mlb/brandon_phillips/">Brandon Phillips</a>, <a href="http://ballhype.com/mlb/adam_dunn/">Adam Dunn</a>, <a href="http://ballhype.com/mlb/ken_griffey/">Ken Griffey</a>, <a href="http://ballhype.com/mlb/cincinnati_reds/">Cincinnati Reds</a></p> http://ballhype.com/story/bakermetrics_walks_and_aggressive_at_bats/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:32:17 +1900 MLB Dusty Baker Edwin Encarnacion Brandon Phillips Adam Dunn Ken Griffey Cincinnati Reds