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 ... (Full article: 211 words)

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