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Brandon Belt’s More Disciplined Approach Leading to Early-Season Success

If there was a pretty well-defined weakness in Brandon Belt‘s game, it was always strikeouts. While Belt has always been a solid contributor when his black cloud of bad luck allows him to be on the field, striking out was his achilles heel. In 2015, he led the San Francisco Giants with 147 strikeouts, and his 26.4 percent strikeout rate was below only Marlon Byrd (who played 39 games with the Giants after a trade) and Andrew Susac (who played 52 games as the backup catcher).