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As a few others have said, to me a high number of GIDP is almost a goal for my hitters, certainly not something I worry about avoiding.
As a quick example, I just pulled a list of all Qualified individual player-seasons since 2000, of the 3,682 player-seasons 30 had 27+ GIDP (30 entries fit on the first page on Fangraphs and happens to be a clean cutoff so going with it lol). Their wRC+ are, in order (from most to least GDP): 115, 90, 133, 147, 104, 95, 110, 147, 104, 125, 125, 155, 166, 117, 123, 100, 125, 89, 109, 88, 109, 123, 107, 123, 155, 130, 111, 129, 106, 132.
That's obviously a jumble of numbers, but just posting them to show the clear trend that these are mostly good to very good hitters; only 4 were below-average while a full 15/30 have wRC+ over 120, and 5 (Miggy, AGon, Pujols, Holliday, and Pujols again) are even above 145 wRC+!
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