Phillips and "walks" is more Francour than most Reds fans would like to admit
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CAREER
PLATE APPEARANCES BETWEEN 4500 AND 5000
WALKS BB PA
1 Prince Fielder 651 4900
2 Ryan Howard 565 4701
3 Joe Mauer 555 4552
4 Dan Uggla 519 4674
5 Curtis Granderson 487 4799
6 Justin Morneau 464 4807
7 Adam LaRoche 446 4669
8 Michael Cuddyer 443 4949
9 Nick Markakis 436 4556
10 Marco Scutaro 428 4926
11 David DeJesus 420 4887
12 Coco Crisp 375 4870
13 Ty Wigginton 366 4886
14 Jerry Hairston Jr. 359 4741
15 Brandon Phillips 288 4988
16 Jeff Francoeur 239 4702
17 Cesar Izturis 217 4537
Phillips is a swinger, I don't see him even raising his BB rate as well as Davey did at the same age, and even he vacillated
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YEAR TEAM AGE G AB R H 2B 3B HR HR% RBI BB SO SB CS AVG SLG OBA OPS
1974 Reds 26 160 594 70 167 25 1 14 2.36 82 44 79 41 6 .281 .397 .335 .732
1975 Reds 27 140 507 62 139 23 1 5 0.99 49 39 51 33 6 .274 .353 .326 .679
1976 Reds 28 152 576 74 162 28 7 9 1.56 69 49 68 21 10 .281 .401 .335 .736
1977 Reds 29 156 572 59 155 26 3 8 1.40 64 46 77 29 7 .271 .369 .322 .691
1978 Reds 30 153 565 75 170 33 4 6 1.06 67 51 83 23 10 .301 .405 .357 .763
1979 Reds 31 149 590 91 166 25 3 16 2.71 84 64 73 19 7 .281 .415 .348 .764
1980 Reds 32 156 622 72 162 31 8 5 0.80 77 37 107 12 2 .260 .360 .300 .660
1981 Reds 33 106 421 57 129 28 0 5 1.19 67 37 61 4 5 .306 .409 .358 .767
1982 Reds 34 147 572 48 164 25 4 5 0.87 53 45 61 13 6 .287 .371 .337 .707
1983 Reds 35 143 528 54 123 22 0 1 0.19 47 56 81 14 9 .233 .280 .303 .583
1984 Reds 36 154 531 46 130 26 1 4 0.75 58 52 72 22 6 .245 .320 .307 .628
Sure in theory he can do it but ya know teach a old dog new tricks baseball is a fools errand most of the time