Jorge Soler is not big on swinging. That’s not to say he abhors it, or anything, but he prefers to wait. Among the 362 batters with 200 or more PAs this season:
- Soler had 76th-lowest chase rate (21st percentile);
- Soler had the 135th-highest swing rate on pitches in the zone (63rd percentile); and
- If you combine those, only 90 batters swung at a lower rate of pitches than Soler (25th percentile).
Being in the bottom quartile in swing rate isn’t anything too special, and it’s not like Soler has cracked the “swing at strikes, take balls” code to any kind of extreme degree.