Curveball Hitters - Addendum

Per request, here's another look at the overall rates plus the in-play rate which is x/contact (like homers)

swing   39.77%
contact 74.30%
homer    1.31%
in-play 53.32%

I thought I'd throw this in, too. Bad luck/eye and good luck/eye hitters - ratios of called strikes to balls. The overall B:CS is 2.1:1

The best

B:CS - vs. lefty

 
Andruw Jones     10.0
Wily Mo Pena      9.0
J.J. Hardy        9.0
Chris Young       7.0
Josh Fields       7.0
Julio Lugo        7.0
Mike Cameron      7.0

B:CS - vs. righty

Johnny Damon     16.0
K. Kouzmanoff    15.0
Scott Hatteberg  11.0
Shawn Green      10.0
Joey Votto       10.0
Manny Ramirez     9.0
Aramis Ramirez    9.0
Justin Upton      9.0

Aramis Ramirez shows up here. I wonder how good an eye this indicates - maybe it just shows a guy doesn't swing at the obviously bad breaking balls. Just having free-swinging A-Ram in there makes me think that.

The worst

B:CS - vs. lefty

Jose Guillen      0.3
Adam LaRoche      0.3
Rajai Davis       0.5
Nick Markakis     0.5
Craig Biggio      0.6
Marco Scutaro     0.6
Bengie Molina     0.7
Ichiro Suzuki     0.7

B:CS - vs. righty

Carlos Delgado    0.0
Chris Gomez       0.4
Jay Gibbons       0.4
Brandon Phillips  0.5
Tony Abreu        0.6
Jeff Mathis       0.6
Hank Blalock      0.6
Justin Ruggiano   0.6
Scott Thorman     0.6