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Swisher's rapidly declining contact and patience skills warn of impending "age-out disaster"
This is a really odd statement to me, because I'm looking at Swisher's Fangraphs page right now and completely fail to see what you're talking about.
The guy has had almost exactly the same Swing% rates and Contact% rates his entire career with minor adjustment to how they are measured. His K% has almost always been in a very narrow window of 21-23%.
I guess you could point out how his O-Swing% jumped up in 2010, but his O-Contact% correspondingly jumped up equally seems to be more indicative as a result that pitchers weren't pitching him in the zone as much (as opposed to the reverse correlation where he was swinging and missing more often outside the zone so pitchers decided to stay away from it).