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It seems that M's pitchers across the board - starting pitchers at least - are showing a trend of losing their strikeouts. Snell, RRS, French, even Felix is making an effort to pitch more to contact, IIRC.
My guess is this is an org philosophy being emphasized by Adair and Co... to pitch more to contact, keep pitch counts low, go deeer in games.
What, you want me to back up this claim with stats??? I'd prefer to make wild baseless hypotheses thanks.