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If the feature works correctly, then, in a vacuum, it should be disadvantageous to choose to 'pitch to contact'. That is, if you do it all the time, your pitchers' ERAs should go up a fair bit. After all, strikeouts are good, and pitchers get more strikeouts than walks, so it shouldn't be a good strategy to try to not get strikeouts.
But there are situations where you might want to pitch to contact - in a blowout game, for example, when your bullpen is already exhausted, you might want to have an option to keep your pitch counts way down. There also may be specific game situations where the strategy would be useful; for example, with a low Stuff and low Control pitcher on the mound, and with the bases loaded, you might prefer to have your pitcher give up a ball in play rather than risk a walk. Or in a situation where a double play might be preferable to a strikeout, it might be an option to consider.
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