He is striking out at a pace reminiscent of another era, comparable to the career marks of players with names like Klondike Douglass, Irish Meusel and Cupid Childs.
Andrelton Simmons entered Saturday striking out once every 24.36 plate appearances, leading baseball during a season in which strikeout totals have soared.
In his first 268 plate appearances, Simmons had 11 strikeouts, not even half his total of 25 walks. He even had more doubles (12) than strikeouts.
On Saturday, Scioscia referred to his bullpen as being “kind of an eclectic group.