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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1836383, member: 289"] They are talking about the Mets picking up Jay Bruce. That's exciting, (depending on what we have to give up for him), as he leads the NL in RBIs with 80 and had hit 25 home runs. He sound like just what we need. I was looming at Bruce's stats: [URL="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bruceja01.shtml"]Jay Bruce Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com[/URL] I always look at the walk-to strike ratio. If a player doesn't walk much but strikes out a lot , he's doing the pitcher too many favors. He's not looking for something in his wheelhouse and then protecting the plate with stwo strikes as a good hitter should. He's just swinging at anything he thinks he might be able to lay a bat on. The Mets are full of such players and Bruce will be another one, (27W 83S). The difference is he appears to actually be able to get the good wood on more pitchers than everyone except Cespedes has been doing. I'm not sure who it would be but I might have liked a guy with a smarter approach to hitting. it might rub off. Here are the 2016 Met's numbers: [URL="http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYM/2016.shtml"]2016 New York Mets Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com[/URL] Look at the walk to strike out ratios. There isn't a player on the team whose ratio isn't pathetic. The Team ratio is 1 to 2.7 (322 to 865) Now look at the 1986 Mets: [URL="http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYM/1986.shtml"]1986 New York Mets Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com[/URL] Among the starters, only Strawberry, Foster and maybe Ray Knight have bad ratios. Overall the 1986 Mets had a 1 to 1.5 ratio (631 to 968). Then I looked at the ratios for the American (4730 to 12167) and National (4977 to 12847), both 1 to 2.6. So maybe there is no one out there who really knows how to hit anymore. [/QUOTE]

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