The lads in the Orange & Black, apparently in response to Ted Robinson's elitist and incessant charge that baseball games are too long, pretty much swing away every chance they get. Other than Bonds and to a far lesser extent, Durham and Klesko, these guys have exorcised the passive from the passive/aggressive paradigm; any thing to get that game in under 2 1/2 hours.
52 games in, 155 walks. 54 of those lovely and offense enhancing free passes come from Bonds alone. That means that the other 25 guys who have flailed away senselessly for the Giants this season have chipped in for 101 walks. If we eliminate the 3 relievers who have amassed 3 ab's this year then 22 guys have conspired to to keep those base paths in their pristine pre game state.
Durham and Klesko, in age and infirmary limited ab's, have combined for 27 of those 101 walks. Eliminating the ab's by the starting rotation seems fair. Those guys have suffered enough from the Giants refusing to take walks and the pen refusing to strike anybody out. That leaves 15 Ronco Hackmasters fighting every urge to swing, swing, swing for those paltry 74 walks.
That averages out to 7 walks per hacker or about 1 walk every 7 games or so. There may be some sort of insidious force at work here. How else can you explain a normally dependable guy like Winn eking out fewer base on balls in more ab's than Feliz! That may happen in the universe where Spock has a goatee but it can't possibly be true in this final frontier. Can it?
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"then 22 guys have conspired to to keep those base paths in their pristine pre game state."
That is some funny stuff. I played the game a bit myself and I never understood why the vast majority of my teammates would swing at any ball they thought might strike the backstop if they let it go.
As I was looking at the numbers our pitching staff is also in the top group for walks allowed. Nice combination, no wonder we have so many close, painful losses.
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