Gio and the strikeout: Is less really more?

Lubbers:

And then in 2010 a funny thing happened…his strikeout rate dropped from 9.7 per nine innings entering this season to a still respectable but substantially lower 7.8 per nine in 2010.  To hear a local writer tell the story (“Fewer Strikeouts Can Lead to More Wins”) Gonzalez’s turnaround in 2010 can in large part be traced back to his strikeout rate falling by nearly 20%. …

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