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Originally Posted by le receveur
Sorry, all i read here is your friend didn't understand what the rating was telling him. Fine, better user guide is obviously needed. Not sure how it makes the stat irrelevant.
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Avoids K: how often he will put it in play
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Correct, but I've seen that confusion commonly repeated and it isn't just because of the user guide. It's also because Avoid K is being rolled into contact.
For me, once I have the Contact rating, how often my scout lets me know a player will strike out can be useful, but it nowhere near matches the other four pieces of information there.
The people I see valuing Avoids K are those that don't understand how it already works within Contact and actually think it is adding something to or taking something away from a player's projected batting average
in addition to contact.
I think the best way to put it is that Avoid K is a subset of Contact that tells us the breakdown of outs a player will make. Let's take this the other way. If a rating informing strikeouts is useful, why not ratings on ground outs and fly outs?