The Detroit Tigers are free swingers. If you’ve been watching this team this year, you already knew that. Eight Tigers hitters have swung at over 50% of the pitches they’ve seen this year, including four players who play consistently. That cut-off just misses Leonys Martin (49.1%) and Victor Martinez (49%) as well.
Unfortunately, as one would expect this limits Detroit’s opportunities to draw walks. They currently have the lowest walk rate in the entire MLB, at 6.9%. This isn’t an issue of seeing more strikes than other teams, as they see roughly the same % of pitches in the strike zone (43.