Congratulations to Al Alburquerque, who, through the first half of the season, owns baseball’s lowest contact rate, at 58.4%. He’s on pace to beat Carlos Marmol’s 61.3%, which he posted last year while going insane.
The First Half’s Most Unhittable
↵However, Alburquerque’s currently nowhere close to the best contact rate posted since 2002, which is as far back as our data goes. In 2004, Brad Lidge had a contact rate of 50.5% in 94-2/3 innings, meaning that, of all the swings batters took against Lidge that season, half of them missed.
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