In yesterday's post, I mentioned Adrian Beltre's walk year spike and I was immediately called on this. Chris in Illinois said he was "sick of the walk year stories", so I dug for where I had read this. While I *know* I read it somewhere, Dayn Perry just did a study on this for the upcoming Baseball Between The Numbers.

While I'm not going to spoil the surprise or sales, I will say that Dayn's study showed that the walk year spike isn't a myth. I'll quote him for a summary: "[P]layers: (1) perform better in their walk years, (2) do so at an age that doesn't lend itself to peaking, and (3) perform better in their walk years than they do in their pre- or postwalk seasons."

I wish I could give you more, but you know what a sales whore I am. Suffice it to say that you'll want to read Dayn's study in full, along with the rest of the cutting-edge re-examinations of issues that will have you saying "wow, I didn't know that!"