2012 Fantasy Baseball Leaders and Laggards: Swinging Strike % Edition

Michael Pineda, SP, New York Yankees

Pitchers need to miss bats to strike batters out at the rates that fantasy GMs need to compete for titles.

Swinging strike percentage shows exactly how well pitchers do that. A pitcher simply has more control of the situation if he can get a batter to swing and miss. Pitchers who have higher swinging strike percentages tend to have lower than average LOB %.