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"Modern Strike Machine" Arraez Strikes Back and Takes on the challenge of winning the Strike King for the fourth time

San Diego Padres "Modern Strike Machine" Luis Arraez, who won three batting titles for three consecutive years, gradually returned after a rather sluggish performance of 23 teams in the first six games of the new season, and delivered a high batting average of 3 to 55 in April, making it possible to challenge the milestone of winning the batting king for four consecutive years.

Arraez won the American League Strike Champion in Minnesota Twins in 2022, and moved to the Miami Marlins in 2023 to win the National League Strike Champion with a terrifying 3-to-54 batting rate.

Arraez has a chance to challenge a new milestone this season, and if he wins the batter for three consecutive years, he will become the seventh player in history to win the batter king for four consecutive years, the first player since Hall of Fame player "Mr. Padres" Gwynn achieved the four-game hit in 1997, and will become the 15th player in history to sit on the batter throne at least four times in his career.

Although Arraez's current batting rate of 2 to 89 is only ranked 16th in the National League, he also started low and high last year, and his batting rate in the first 20 games of the season was only 2 to 63, and he was still able to win the National League batting king with 3 to 14. And after the start of this season's 23 teams to today, he has delivered a high strike rate of 3 to 30. This is all thanks to his low swing rate and low strikeout rate, which last season was only 4.3 percent and has evolved to only 2.1 percent this year, which is the secret of his consistent performance when his swing speed and strong hitting are not particularly good.

However, Arraez has to win the batter king 4 times, in addition to overcoming his slow heat, there are many external enemies waiting for him, Padres teammates Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. have been quite hot since the start of the season, and are currently in the top two of the rankings, in addition, although the current number of seats is not enough to enter the list, but this season's batting rate is as high as 3 to 76 and the career batting rate is 3 percent Freddie Freeman is also quite a strong competitor.

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