Go figure

This is one of Eric Van's posts on sonsofsamhorn.com:

''[Mark] Bellhorn fanned 177 times, whereas an average AL [American League] player with his PA [plate appearances] would have fanned 102. Plugging the Red Sox team totals into [my Contextual Runs] formula and subtracting 75 K [strikeouts] shows that Bellhorn's failure to create more potential productive outs cost the team a paralyzing 2.2 runs [over the course of the entire season]. However, when you strike out, you can't hit into a double play. The average AL player who put the ball into play 75 times would hit into exactly 3 DP [double plays] while doing so. Factoring in the extra GDP [ground into double play] opportunities Bellhorn had will still leave you with 3 after rounding. How many runs would hitting into 3 more DP have cost the Red Sox? 2.3 runs. . . . Finally, if Bellhorn had put the ball in play an extra 75 times, I think it's fair to argue that he would have not only hit into 3 more GDP on average, but also reached once on an error. That would negate one of the three GDPs. So, the bottom line: by leading the league with 177 strikeouts, Mark Bellhorn cost the team a whopping 0.8 runs."