Cubs pitching have led MLB in strikeouts since 2001.

[chuckywang]

Anybody find this to be remarkable since we've had some pretty bad seasons during that timespan? What is it about our coaching that develops strikeout pitchers so well?

[seanimal]

Stupidity.

[soccer10k]

Stupidity.

 

Sarcasm?

[kente777]

Stupidity.

 

Sarcasm?

 

High strikeouts means alot of pitches. Thus high pitch counts and walks.

 

Take a look at how our pitchers have done in the walk department and then you will see why I am not excited about leading the league in strikeouts.

 

 

Ken

[soccer10k]

Stupidity.

 

Sarcasm?

 

High strikeouts means alot of pitches. Thus high pitch counts and walks.

 

Take a look at how our pitchers have done in the walk department and then you will see why I am not excited about leading the league in strikeouts.

 

 

Ken

 

Strikeouts also don't give the batter a chance to get a hit. I don't think you can correlate the strikeouts and the walks. Just because the Cubs have struck out a lot of hitters doesn't mean they're going to walk a lot of hitters also. Maybe they just aren't the best pitchers. Strikeouts and high pitch count? Certainly, because the minimum number of pitches you can throw to strike somebody out is 3.

[David]

Stupidity.

 

Sarcasm?

 

High strikeouts means alot of pitches. Thus high pitch counts and walks.

 

Take a look at how our pitchers have done in the walk department and then you will see why I am not excited about leading the league in strikeouts.

 

 

Ken

 

Strikeouts also don't give the batter a chance to get a hit. I don't think you can correlate the strikeouts and the walks. Just because the Cubs have struck out a lot of hitters doesn't mean they're going to walk a lot of hitters also. Maybe they just aren't the best pitchers. Strikeouts and high pitch count? Certainly, because the minimum number of pitches you can throw to strike somebody out is 3.

 

I think you can correlate them pretty well. It seems pretty logical that, because strikeout pitchers have to throw more pitches, they also throw more balls and go deeper into counts. As a result, you'd definitely think they'd walk more hitters as a whole than guys who don't strike so many hitters out.

 

It's pretty similar to how a lot of the high walk hitters are also high strikeout guys. Of course, there are exceptions. Some pitchers, like Prior when he was Prior, strike out a ton of guys, throw lots of pitches, and still don't walk many guys. But I'd guess that, by and large, (the Cubs being no exception), high strikeout pitchers walk more guys than average.

 

Also, I'm not trying to support the argument that the high strikeout totals are undesirable. The Cubs have been one of the better pitching teams for all these years because of it. I'm just saying that I do think the idea that high-K guys will walk more hitters has a good amount of validity to it.