At BP Kansas City, David Lesky asserts that patience is fueling Alex Gordon’s resurgence:
So you can see that he’s not getting pitched around basically at all, and when he is, he’s leaving the bat on his shoulder. He’s even swinging and missing at the lowest rate of his career. I’ll spare you the chart or the graphic, but he’s below 20 percent on swinging strike rate for the first time in his career.
What that’s led to is the lowest soft contact rate since 2012 and the highest hard contact rate of his career.