While researching for the update on Carlos Santana’s 2017 option, I stumbled upon a strange quirk in his batting statistics. This in itself comes as a rather small surprise since he has a rather quirky batting profile. He has a low batting average, but his low strikeout rate and high walk rate combine with some quality power to make him a highly valuable bat. Over his entire career with the Cleveland Indians, he has always been well better than the average run producer.
But this is not the strangest part of his batting statistics. His batting profile is unorthodox, but at least it makes statistical sense.