In the month of April across Major League Baseball, more strikeouts were recorded than hits. It’s the first time that’s happened since 1913. The Houston Astros’ MLB-leading 315 strikeouts were tops in baseball during the first month of the season.
Anchored by Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole, the Astros feature a lot of swing-and-miss stuff in their pitching staff. This season, Houston has an MLB-best 13.9% swing and miss rate, which seems to be by design.
Trevor Bauer isn’t buying it. On Monday, he took to Twitter to air his theory about why Astros pitchers are racking up so many strikeouts.