So as anyone who has followed along here at all closely realizes, the San Antonio Keys 31-year old shortstop Bud Lindsay is the greatest player of this generation in the WPK (think Mike Trout but at shortstop).
The 4 MVP's are on record, as well as the 6 Gold Glove awards, 11 All-Star appearances, etc.
But a lesser noted aspect of Lindsay's career statistically is his very fine walk to strikeout ratio.
Here are his basic career batting stats: (blue highlighting added by me to aid in illustrating my point.)
So while his career 513 walks to 436 strikeouts is good it isn't exactly astounding by any means. For comparison, Ryan Rodgers, formerly of the Denver Brewers, retired with a WPK record 1540 walks while only striking out 420 times in his 17-season career.
But look at what Lindsay did in his 9 WAR Rookie of the Year season of 1972: 128 strikeouts with just 38 bases on balls. Sure, he was only 21 years old but again, he put up 9 WAR, so it's not like he was over-matched in any way. He then had 2 injury shortened seasons in which his ratio got a bit better but also in which he still struck out more times than he walked. But starting in the 1975 season- his age 24 campaign- he has never had a season where his walks didn't exceed his strikeouts, and often by a good amount, with the best being his second of four consecutive MVP seasons in 1977, when he walked 73 times and struck out only 23 times. Talk about a young star player maturing and adjusting.
Just another way in which Bud Lindsay is some kind of special player.