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Originally Posted by goalieump413
So, I went to baseball-reference.com and looked up what happened in the 2012 season. I looked at each team's total runs scored vs their strikeouts. I wanted to see if there was a correlation between runs and K's. Turns out, there is. |
You realize this study is meaningless, at least as far as this discussion goes? We aren't asking the question: do strikeouts prevent you from getting runs? Of course they do; they make outs. The question is: are strikeouts worse than other types of outs? The answer to that question can't be answered with a simple correlation study, since teams that strike out more tend to have lower batting averages, and it's lower batting averages that mean fewer runs. Don't conflate correlation and causation.