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I feel your pain. The avoid K rating is hugely important in OOTP, and I do everything I can to get rid of players who are below average or worse in this category. Players who strike out a lot will absolutely kill your offense.
Similarly, players with a low eye rating will also cause a lot of problems. They not only don't draw many walks, but they don't tend to get as many hits as their contact suggests, and they tend to hit into bad outcomes more often. I can't tell you how many thousands of times I've seen players with a low eye rating hit into a double play, fail to move a runner over, hit a weak grounder that leads to a runner at third being thrown out at home, hit into a play where a baserunner gets doubled up trying to get back to the base on a hit-and-run, etc.
Also, you can exploit opposing players with a low eye rating by pitching around them more often, which reduces their ability to get base hits, even if they have a really high contact rating and are dangerous hitters otherwise. Sure, it increases the risk of a walk and creates a bit more risk of a hit toward the gaps or down the lines, but the benefits seem to heavily outweigh the risk.
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