Question: What do the Braves, the Phillies and the Royals have in common?
If you answered “They’re the three leaders in pitches chased out of the zone!”, you would be right.
And if you answered “They’re three of the four lowest scoring teams in baseball!”, you would also be right.
That leads us back to Colorado. The Rockies as a team have swung at 30.5 percent of the pitches they’ve seen outside of the strike zone this year, which is above league average. In a lineup full of aggressive hitters, Descalso has been the exception; no Colorado position player has swung at a lower percentage of balls (20.