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Should Ryan Howard Try To Strikeout Less?

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 11/25/2008 on cybermetric.blogspot.com

You might think so. In both 2006 and 2007 he led the major leagues in "contact average." I define that as hits divided by (AB - K + SF). His contact average in 2006 was .448 and in 2007 it was .421 (although it fell to .372 in 2008). And he strikes out about 190 times a year. So more contact ...