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Originally Posted by joehart
I am very interested to see how this works out. I was able to put people on base easily in the earlier leagues but it is getting so difficult with all these amazing 95-100 pitchers.
I looked at players with 80+ Walks/season for Perfect leagues and
the number of players to achieve this are pretty short (and mostly outside my budget):
100 Trout, 100 Bonds, 100 Ted Williams, 100 Babe Ruth, 100 Mickey Mantle, 98 Joe Morgan, 86 Harper, 97 Jose Ramirez
On my team only the following players seem to be on track:
89 Edgar Martinez, 100 Trout, 95 Altuve, 100 Mookie Betts and 96 Vlad Jr
I fear getting lots of walks is an expensive trial. It may take a long term approach over multiple seasons and ongoing small improvements.
I really hope this works out.
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The Phoenix are leading the league in walks, with 262, but this is the first season where we have not been among the league leaders in OBP. I hope to fix that going forward.
I looked at my guys and their history with walks:
Trout has managed 112+ walks in every season, going back to Bronze. He had 146 last year. He has a 75 (out of 80) eye.
Harper had 97 walks in my first (of two) diamond seasons, the only season in which he played full time for me. This year, he is well behind that pace. He has a 70 (out of 80) eye.
Cochrane (70 eye) is on track for 92 if he had 600 plate appearances, which he won't, of course, as a C.
Bautista (65 eye) is on track for 79 walks over 600 PA.