A walk is as good as a hit...or to be more accurate, a walk is as good as a single with no one on base.
Yet walks are valuable nonetheless, especially in the mind of a Moneyball fanatic such as myself. And I’m talking about Moneyball the book, not the movie, just to be clear.
The ability to earn a base on balls affects a game in more ways than one. Per SB Nation, “there were 1.39 home runs hit per team game in 2019, a whopping 11 percent more than the previous record, and 20 percent more than any other season in major league history.