If you missed today's series finale, you may want to take a seat before reading the next sentence. Yuniesky Betancourt walked today. On four pitches. It was his first unintentional walk in May, and his first four pitch unintentional walk as a Brewer.
Betancourt has now walked seven times this season in 169 plate appearances, good for a walk rate of 4.1%. If you hadn't guessed, that's a ridiculously low number. No Brewer has come to the plate 400 times with a walk rate that low since Johnny Estrada in 2007.
Only four players in Brewer history have compiled 1000 plate appearances with a walk rate under 5%:
Player | Seasons | PA | BB | Walk% |
Mike Matheny | 1994-98 | 1278 | 57 | 4.5% |
Bill Schroeder | 1983-88 | 1153 | 54 | 4.7% |
Dick Davis | 1977-80 | 1023 | 35 | 3.4% |
Von Joshua | 1976-77 | 1015 | 39 | 3.8% |
Betancourt's 169 PAs are already the 34th most in a Brewer career by a player who walks less than five percent of the time. If you remove pitchers, he's 27th.