Free Agent Stock Watch: Adam Dunn
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1| Baseball Digest Daily found this 4/21/2008 on www.mlbtraderumors.com [flag] |
Adam Dunn will be a free agent after this season. So it's a safe bet that Dunn is going to have a career year and will cash in this winter, right? Not so fast.
Dunn, who has hit exactly 40 home runs in each of the past three seasons, has only two so far. But that's not what makes Dunn's 2008 start so interesting.
This season, Dunn's OBP is a robust .418, but his batting average is an ...
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Walking His Way Into the Record Books
Published 4/21/2008 by Dave Rouleau at Baseball Digest Daily
In a post on MLB Trade Rumors , Coley Ward wrote about potential free agents when the season ends and he mentioned Adam Dunn , who's having a tough year when it comes to making contact with the ball, but is burning the home-plate-to-first-base path with 21 walks in 53 at-bats (28 BB%), on pace for 207 walks if he records the same amount of AB that he did last season (522). That's 10% more walks than his career average (17 BB%). While an impressive number, it still would not be a record, with Barry Bonds getting 232 in 2004, on top of his 120 intentional walks. He ...
