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It's always a bit difficult on my phone but that's where I do everything most of the time. I figured Ackley's 671 PA last year made it a good year to just look at the total looking strikeouts. His % was only* 31% last year but he was 15th in looking strikeouts behind Stubbs, Dunn, Pedro Alvarez, Dan Uggla, Both Uptons, R. Weeks, H Ramirez, David Wright, Choo, Chris Davis, Danny Espinosa, Corey Hart and Josh Willingham. Hmm. That's not bad company. Logically if they weren't doing well enough they wouldn't have gotten enough PA to rack up the total (unless a Def specialist) so that doesn't show as much as I hoped.
Turning off qualifiers for L/so% adds in a bunch of pitchers and 100% guys with few PA so I turned it back on and he was 25th. Most of those same names plus other all Stars and defensive specialists ahead of him so that stat alone is possible to do well despite it being high. 40% or higher from 2012 (qualifiers, I know omissions. Looking for inclusions though); Span, Callaspo, Altuve, Scutaro, Jon Jay, Michael Brantley, Ben Revere, Justin Upton, David Wright and Teixeira. This year Tulowiski, Trout and Coco Crisp are at 38%. None of them raised it 11% over last year though.