After 90 games, the San Francisco Giants have a big enough sample size to begin drawing conclusions. So far this season, the team is walking more and striking out less.
While these improvements are incremental in nature, they at least show the team is tending in the right direction.
In 2018, the Giants posted a 24.0 percent strikeout rate compared to a 7.3 percent walk rate, ratios that ranked near the bottom of the league. In total, they struck out 1,467 times, but it certainly felt like it was even worse than that.
Only the San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox, and Texas Rangers struck out more times last season.