Hitting is hard. You have a fraction of a second to decide whether or not to swing at a pitch and hurlers have the ability to make a pitch look like a strike until it dives out of the zone at the last minute. As much as we'd like to pretend otherwise, we can't wave a magic wand and have batters swing at nothing but strikes. Among qualified MLB hitters this year, the lowest O-Swing% is the 20.6 mark of Juan Soto. That means even the best hitters are going to swing at one out of five pitches out of the strike zone.
In all, 13 Mets have at least 100 PA this season and the lowest O-Swing% belongs to DJ Stewart, with a 19.2 mark. Everyone else has a rate of 27.4% or higher. Jose Iglesias has the worst mark, with a 41.9 O-Swing %. The MLB average is a 31.9% mark. Nine of the 13 Mets have a worse-than-average chase rate.
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