Tonight, the St. Louis Cardinals (10-time World Champions) are playing the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds employ a really big dude who hits lots of home runs. His name is Adam Dunn. As you can see, young Adam strikes out a lot, something that Cardinals announcer Al Hrabosky noted during tonight's telecast. That prompted this quote from the venerable Joe Buck:
"Striking out has always been a problem for Dunn. He's turned into a Dave Kingman-clone: all-or-nothing."
This is so incredibly wrong. First of all, striking out is nothing more than making an out. Sure, it's embarrassing, but it's just an out. Dunn makes up for his low batting average with an incredibly high walk rate: over 100 per 162 games. He's far more than an "all-or-nothing" guy - his career OBP is .378. Dave Kingman, on the other hand, walked 608 times in over 7400 plate appearances. Thus far, Adam Dunn has walked 604 times....in only 3700 plate appearances. That's a huge fucking difference. Dunn is much better at hitting than Kingman. It's not even close. By the way, Kingman's career OBP is .302. Wowza. That's bad.
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