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https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article...g-growth-2020/

Perhaps more significant than Vladdy’s contact gains — especially in a small sample — is his improved plate discipline. Guerrero Jr. has seen his walk rate jump and strikeout rate fall this year, improving his BB/K to 0.71 — which ranks 28th among 159 qualified hitters.

Particularly impressive has been the significant drop in his chase rate on pitches outside the zone, from 28.9 per cent last year (just a hair above league average) to 22.6 per cent this season. He’s not quite Cavan Biggio, but for the first time he looks like a guy whose ability to lay off pitchers was supposed to be the antithesis to his father’s free-swinging ways.