1. You don't say "only 2 guys higher than 28.6%." You say "guys between 25 and 30%." You don't compare a player by making his performance the edge of the data pool.
Extend it to 25% and you've got lots of players - Salmon, Clark, Preston Wilson, Ryan Howard, etc. "Only 2 guys higher" is wayyyyy misleading.
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2. Everybody who would have struck out more --- > washed out and didn't get the chance.
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3. "Top 100" lists edit the player pool against high-K players. He didn't measure minor leaguers; he measured SUBJECTIVELY WELL-REGARDED minor leaguers.
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4. K% ... that is, K/AB rather than K/PA ... edits the pool against guys with BB's, guys who work the count. This is unwise.
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5. The guys promoted early are not caught in the pool, as Benihana pointed out.
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6. If Trayvon spends two more years in the minors his K% will go way down.
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7. etc. etc. etc.
Taking that little mini-"study" and saying "see, look, only 2 guys ever whiffed like Trayvon and made it to the majors," that is 100% false.
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