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Early Royals statistics: Real, fake, or too soon?

There are a lot of interesting things going on inside this team right now. I though I would just highlight a few and see what if anything looks like it is real and what is just a blip that will smooth out as the sample expands.

Salvador K%

Salvador Perez has seen his K% increase over the past six years after having a very low rate early in his career. Part of that is just the league strikeout rate increasing because pitchers have gotten better and better. Part of it is that he is hitting for more power, which tends to correlate with strikeouts.