"I have heard it said that home run leaders tend also to be strikeout leaders. Looking over some stats, there are enough exceptions to this statement to make me wonder if it is true.Here is my answer:
Would you say that there is sufficient evidence to make such a generalization?"
"The correlation between HR frequency and strikeout frequency was .59 for guys with at least 5000 plate appearances from 1994-2013. So there is a general tendency to see more strikeouts as you hit more HRs, but it certainly is not a perfect relationship. I also did the correlation using HR/PA and SO/PA. The correlation was about the same, .57 (and PAs excluded IBBs)
Here are the top 20 guys in HR/AB (that is the first number) and the 2nd number is SO/AB. The average strikeout rate was .172 for all the players. 14 of these top 20 guys are above that (Frank Thomas was just barely above it). The average for the top 20 is .214. So there is a general tendency.
Player
|
HR
|
SO
|
Barry Bonds
|
0.094
|
0.152
|
Sammy Sosa
|
0.078
|
0.262
|
Jim Thome
|
0.075
|
0.306
|
Ryan Howard
|
0.072
|
0.323
|
Ken Griffey
|
0.071
|
0.195
|
Adam Dunn
|
0.068
|
0.344
|
Manny Ramirez
|
0.068
|
0.220
|
Albert Pujols
|
0.067
|
0.114
|
Alex Rodriguez
|
0.067
|
0.211
|
Rafael Palmeiro
|
0.066
|
0.142
|
Juan Gonzalez
|
0.066
|
0.185
|
Frank Thomas
|
0.066
|
0.172
|
Carlos Delgado
|
0.065
|
0.240
|
Jeff Bagwell
|
0.065
|
0.208
|
Mo Vaughn
|
0.064
|
0.269
|
Mike Piazza
|
0.062
|
0.161
|
Richie Sexson
|
0.062
|
0.266
|
Gary Sheffield
|
0.062
|
0.138
|
Larry Walker
|
0.061
|
0.168
|
David Ortiz
|
0.061
|
0.209
|
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