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In 2009, in particular, Fister had one of the PCL's worst team defenses behind him. That team routinely fielded Chris Shelton at THIRD BASE...Bryan LaHair in LEFT FIELD...stuff like that...because it had seventy billion 1B/DH guys fighting for PT. In fact, the Rainiers allowed over 9.8 H/9...which is 4th worst in all of AAA. They also allowed a world-beating number of errors...well in excess of an error per game. So yes...some of Fister's high hit rates have indeed been OUT OF HIS CONTROL. Not all of it...your point about his having been fairly hittable still stands...but let's not exaggerate things.