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Originally Posted by ctorg
One thing I brought up is that, by my observation (admittedly not tested statistically, so open to being disproven), power hitters tend to draw a lot of walks. It's not always true, but it most cases it is. In OOTP, that connection is not there. OOTP seems to crank out guys who hit a lot of homers but don't walk much.
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I would agree. I'm sure there's not a 100% correlation (Wade Boggs, Rickey Henderson both walked a ton), but I would think power hitters get pitched around more often, thus draw more walks.
Just checking the walks leaders among active players:
Bonds, F. Thomas, Bagwell, Palmeiro, Olerud, Thome, Sheffield, Ventura, Biggio, Griffey, Bernie Williams, Todd Zeile, Tim Salmon, Chip Jones, Luis Gonzalez, Mark McLemore, Man-Ram, Larry Walker, Jason Giambi, Julio Franco. That's the top 20. So there's a strong tendency there, but not 100% correlation (
Mark McLemore???).