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Low strikeout rates are what we mean by high contract rate. ... actually, high contact rate tends to refer to the swing rate on a swing-for-swing basis - Michael Brantley had a measly 3.4% swings and misses last year on all swings, and as we'd expect he struck out only 51 times all year.
The Mariners were #25 (worst) of 30 teams with 10.7% of all swings missing, compared to an industrywide figure of about 10.0%. So the Mariners were #4 in total strikeouts.
Guess I musta typed a typ-o. Would be easy for DiPoto to reduce K's if he wanted to. Make Zunino a roving instructor, maybe?