Fangraphs: Pitching to Contact.

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http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/pitching-to-contact-with-zack-greinke-and-denard-span/

I?m not going to spend a lot of pitches going for the strikeout. They make too much contact.?

We?ve heard this sort of thing before, of course. Pitching to contact is even espoused as a general philosophy by some organizations. But it?s a little surprising to hear from this pitcher, who regularly strikes out 200 batters a year, even if he?s told us before that pitching to FIP ? pitching to limit the walks and increase the strikeouts ? just led to hard contact in the zone.

Too hard to strikeout.