The Importance of Pitch Mixing Up

Otani has been the second best hitter in baseball before he gets to two strikes but when he gets toTwo strikes then he plummets. If you look at performance with zero strikes or one strike and you limit it to 1500 total pitches let's say only Aaron Judge has a higher weighted on base average over the past three seasons 2021 through 2023 than Otani. He is a lot worse with two strikes if you look at it just as a percentage decline like the typical players weighted on baseAverage decline from zero or one strike to two is about 41%. His is like 57% and there are only 10 guys on this list of qualifiers who met some pitch minimums so with each number