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Matt Mullins's avatar

Moreover, just by looking at him he looked like he had gap power as well. Many of the Japanese power hitters I believed growing up were just as good as power hitters. If anything they could get many extra base hits. I'm a sucker for the gap hitters.

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Average Baseball's avatar

I believe they’re taught to play the game correctly with respect to hitting

They don’t solely focus on crushing the ball, but instead spray it across all fields

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Matt Mullins's avatar

Homers per rate at bats, I'm looking at Big Mac numbers here. At his peak in the 90's, before 98 it was something like 15.88

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