Swing and Miss

As with the previous post here are the pitchers in 2005 who made hitters miss most often.

Name                  PA Pitches    P/PA       S   S/Pit
Brad Lidge           291    1134    3.90     214   0.189
Rudy Seanez          248     993    4.00     180   0.181
Michael Wuertz       319    1323    4.15     211   0.159
Billy Wagner         297    1195    4.02     175   0.146
Joe Nathan           276    1145    4.15     159   0.139
Ugueth Urbina        330    1440    4.36     197   0.137
Jose Valverde        268    1093    4.08     149   0.136
Aaron Fultz          286    1098    3.84     147   0.134
Aaron Heilman        439    1738    3.96     230   0.132
Johan Santana        910    3326    3.65     433   0.130
Francisco Corder     302    1240    4.11     159   0.128
Huston Street        306    1186    3.88     150   0.126
Kerry Wood           273    1059    3.88     130   0.123
Jake Peavy           812    3159    3.89     384   0.122
Derrick Turnbow      271    1049    3.87     126   0.120
Duaner Sanchez       353    1265    3.58     151   0.119
Akinori Otsuka       276    1067    3.87     127   0.119
Brian Fuentes        321    1338    4.17     159   0.119
Kyle Farnsworth      277    1113    4.02     131   0.118
Cliff Politte        262    1021    3.90     120   0.118

Nothing too surprising here either. Batters swing and miss one out of every five pitches from Brad Lidge. Kirk Rueter on the other hand was at the bottom at just 3.1% or once every 33 pitches.