Here's slugging percentage by count to try to see what the progression was like, as oneupper suggested ...
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SLG By Count
Player 0-2 1-2 2-2 3-2
Barry Bonds .297 .334 .458 .509
Albert Pujols .348 .443 .482 .630
Alex Rodriguez .352 .373 .401 .464
Frank Thomas .353 .368 .361 .452
Jeff Bagwell .277 .369 .383 .461
Adam Dunn .267 .202 .326 .406
Sean Casey .358 .340 .318 .368
Austin Kearns .258 .152 .213 .390
Wily Mo Pena .130 .200 .333 .255
Ken Griffey, Jr .317 .340 .409 .465
Felipe Lopez .217 .291 .221 .552
Ryan Freel .159 .302 .249 .376
Scott Hatteberg .223 .257 .264 .367
Edwin Encarnacion .235 .138 .216 .464
Tony Womack .238 .239 .265 .356
Rich Aurilia .444 .155 .357 .436
Jason LaRue .141 .272 .252 .340
Javier Valentin .232 .178 .397 .377
Sample size is a major problem here, as some hitters have only a handful of plate appearances with specific counts. After a rough look at those figures, the discrepancy between slugging percentage at 3-2 counts vs. 0-2/1-2/2-2 counts may not be as large as I originally believed. I'm going to see if I can pile up some league or even team data, something at least with a much larger sample size to try to gain a better indicator what the upward trend in slugging percentage looks like as a hitter progresses 0-2 ---> 3-2.
Below are some of the same charts as in the first post, but with slugging percentage included ...
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Teams HCPA SLG OPS Total PA HCPA %
San Diego 2405 .454 .920 6271 38.351%
New York (A) 2455 .528 1.020 6406 38.323%
Philadelphia 2426 .481 .966 6345 38.235%
Boston 2403 .527 1.023 6403 37.529%
Cincinnati 2344 .567 1.055 6321 37.083%
Arizona 2335 .527 1.009 6327 36.905%
Los Angeles (N) 2233 .451 .913 6134 36.404%
Texas 2277 .583 1.054 6301 36.137%
Oakland 2247 .496 .960 6275 35.809%
Toronto 2224 .501 .963 6233 35.681%
Atlanta 2207 .573 1.060 6186 35.677%
Cleveland 2225 .556 1.032 6255 35.572%
Seattle 2162 .500 .954 6095 35.472%
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Milwaukee 2143 .531 1.017 6156 34.812%
Los Angeles (A) 2126 .494 .952 6186 34.368%
Minnesota 2120 .486 .953 6192 34.238%
Baltimore 2090 .542 .993 6134 34.072%
New York (N) 2087 .532 1.006 6146 33.957%
St. Louis 2115 .515 .999 6246 33.862%
Colorado 2110 .523 1.011 6238 33.825%
Washington 2073 .475 .946 6142 33.751%
San Francisco 2020 .466 .917 6077 33.240%
Chicago (N) 2031 .526 .982 6161 32.965%
Tampa Bay 2016 .485 .937 6120 32.941%
Pittsburgh 2049 .503 .979 6221 32.937%
Florida 2041 .455 .928 6214 32.845%
Houston 2005 .505 .982 6139 32.660%
Chicago (A) 2006 .483 .930 6146 32.639%
Detroit 1970 .519 .962 6136 32.106%
Kansas City 1948 .474 .931 6086 32.008%
League 64893 .509 .979 186292 34.834%
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Player HCPA SLG OPS Total PA HCPA % HCPA+
Barry Bonds 5276 .715 1.287 10519 50.157% 144
Albert Pujols 1404 .726 1.283 3427 40.969% 118
Frank Thomas 4304 .653 1.198 8602 50.035% 144
Alex Rodriguez 2718 .677 1.200 7084 38.368% 110
Jeff Bagwell 4161 .632 1.174 9428 44.134% 127
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Player HCPA SLG OPS Total PA HCPA % HCPA+
Adam Dunn 1244 .629 1.186 2782 44.716% 128
Scott Hatteberg 1674 .512 1.003 3847 43.514% 125
Austin Kearns 609 .555 1.061 1467 41.513% 119
Edwin Encarnacion 95 .603 1.034 234 40.598% 117
Ken Griffey, Jr 3573 .645 1.132 9053 39.468% 113
Ryan Freel 446 .384 .882 1187 37.574% 108
Rich Aurilia* 173 .523 .991 467 37.045% 106
Sean Casey 1627 .543 1.030 4490 36.236% 104
Felipe Lopez 588 .577 1.065 1663 35.358% 102
Javier Valentin 364 .505 .961 1049 34.700% 100
Jason LaRue 729 .513 .961 2303 31.654% 91
Wily Mo Pena 268 .516 .942 897 29.877% 86
Tony Womack 1556 .432 .881 5256 29.604% 85
* Due to site errors, I only had access to Aurilia's 2005 splits
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Team PCPA SLG OPS Total PA PCPA %
New York (A) 1802 .364 .616 6406 28.130%
Boston 1832 .351 .594 6403 28.612%
San Diego 1826 .305 .527 6271 29.118%
Cleveland 1844 .358 .586 6255 29.480%
Atlanta 1828 .308 .511 6186 29.551%
Cincinnati 1882 .322 .537 6321 29.774%
Philadelphia 1902 .331 .561 6345 29.976%
Texas Rangers 1894 .342 .564 6301 30.059%
Arizona 1909 .296 .514 6327 30.172%
Los Angeles (N) 1851 .297 .511 6134 30.176%
San Francisco 1851 .283 .490 6077 30.459%
Oakland 1917 .323 .548 6275 30.550%
Seattle 1877 .295 .518 6095 30.796%
Los Angeles (A) 1914 .315 .547 6186 30.941%
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Milwaukee 1914 .307 .515 6156 31.092%
Houston 1910 .308 .517 6139 31.113%
St. Louis 1949 .337 .580 6246 31.204%
Toronto 1950 .333 .569 6233 31.285%
Chicago (N) 1933 .347 .573 6161 31.375%
Baltimore 1938 .335 .575 6134 31.594%
Colorado 1978 .303 .527 6238 31.709%
Minnesota 1969 .333 .564 6192 31.799%
Chicago (A) 1966 .327 .549 6146 31.988%
Washington 1980 .305 .529 6142 32.237%
New York (N) 1987 .304 .512 6146 32.330%
Kansas City 1994 .311 .529 6086 32.764%
Pittsburgh 2039 .302 .522 6221 32.776%
Tampa Bay 2007 .343 .584 6120 32.794%
Florida 2047 .328 .575 6214 32.942%
Detroit 2048 .337 .569 6136 33.377%
League 57738 .322 .547 186292 30.993%
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Player PCPA SLG OPS Total PA PCPA % PCPA+
Barry Bonds 1839 .455 .703 10519 17.483% 177
Frank Thomas 1653 .434 .694 8602 19.216% 161
Jeff Bagwell 2211 .418 .670 9428 23.451% 132
Albert Pujols 902 .503 .785 3427 26.291% 118
Alex Rodriguez 2078 .466 .738 7084 29.334% 106
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Player PCPA SLG OPS Total PA PCPA % PCPA+
Adam Dunn 661 .304 .481 2782 23.760% 130
Austin Kearns 356 .291 .490 1467 24.267% 128
Ken Griffey, Jr 2292 .444 .692 9053 25.318% 122
Scott Hatteberg 987 .288 .520 3847 25.656% 121
Rich Aurilia* 120 .358 .583 467 25.696% 121
Edwin Encarnacion 62 .274 .468 234 26.496% 117
Ryan Freel 324 .330 .593 1187 27.296% 114
Javier Valentin 298 .248 .406 1049 28.408% 110
Sean Casey 1339 .396 .675 4490 29.822% 104
Jason LaRue 738 .318 .538 2303 32.045% 97
Wily Mo Pena 294 .266 .419 897 32.776% 95
Felipe Lopez 548 .306 .512 1663 32.952% 94
Tony Womack 1961 .280 .502 5256 37.310% 83
* Due to site errors, I only had access to Aurilia's 2005 splits