MLB Record

What's the record?

 

Don't know the record, but considering how many years baseball has been around and we now have a DH I would say no.

 

1,529 by the 2010 Diamondbacks.

That equates to 9.44 K's/game. Astros currently at 14/game after 2 games.

 

I vote no.

 

Strikeouts are on the rise. Prior to 2005, there had never been a season where more than two teams had struck out 1,200 times. In 2012, 18 teams struck out at least 1,200 times.

You can't use the long history of the game as reason why the record won't be broken. The records for fewest strikeouts came in 1921 (308 by the Reds). The highest numbers have all come in recent history.

 

2010 Diamondbacks 1,529Ks

AL Record: 2012 A's 1,387Ks

2012 Astros: 1,365Ks

 

EDIT: Juicy beat me to it.

 

I don't think Pena and Carter will be in the lineup for the rest of the year which should lower our total.

 

I want to change my vote.

 

I think we might break the record 9 strike outs through 5 innings dam we suck

 

maybe AL, but I think neither. Mostly because the worst offenders will be out of the lineup either by trade, demotion, or release to give others a chance

 

But they'll be replaced by other bad offenders.

 

I'm hoping they're replaced by guys who at least see pitches as opposed to these older guys who are unsigned because they're feast or famine types.

Too many of

Spoiler

 

wallace is eyeing this record..

 

The 2010 D-Backs struck out 24 times in their first series of the season.

The 2013 Astros struck out 43 times in their first series of the season.

 

The D-Backs also drew 9 walks to the Astros' 3.

 

If some of the guys who serve as the centerpieces of our lineup (i.e. Altuve) do not learn to have a little more plate discipline, we definitely have more of a chance to break that record.