Originally Posted By: Hankster
Originally Posted By: dwatkins
Harper went 0 for 0 with two walks and a run scored in his Grapefruit League debut. Walks are good just ax Barry Bonds.

Walks are fine as long as they lead to runs scored.

Bonds averaged 121 runs/yr in his career.


Walks can lead to runs when you are like this guy...

Joe Posnanski of the Kansas City Star and Sports Illustrated wrote:

" I'm about to give you one of my all-time favorite statistics: Rickey Henderson walked 796 times in his career LEADING OFF AN INNING. Think about this again. There would be nothing, absolutely nothing, a pitcher would want to avoid more than walking Rickey Henderson to lead off an inning. And yet he walked SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY SIX times to lead off an inning.

He walked more times just leading off in an inning than Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Kirby Puckett, Ryne Sandberg and more than 50 other Hall of Famers walked in their entire careers ... I simply cannot imagine a baseball statistic more staggering."