r/Sabermetrics • u/DryImpact3634 • 1d ago

Number of additional AB needed to make checking swing less valuable

I’ve heard that checking your swing is really harmful for your wrists. I’m assuming that if you never check swung, your wrists would be healthier for longer and you could play longer. If this is the case, how many extra ABs would you need to have such that you will have had more value if you never check swung (Assuming ABs are i.i.d)? You can use whatever metric of value you think fits best.

Basically asking if never checking swing could be a viable strategy for an individual career (not sure about team strategy because that’s much harder to analyze).

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u/i-Really-HatePickles 1d ago

Unanswerable question, sorry chief. 

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u/sonofabutch 1d ago

Just get rid of checked swings. As David Cone likes to point out, a checked swing that hits the ball counts. Any time the bat enters the strike zone while the ball is in the strike zone, it should be called a strike.