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-8 pts

Alika Williams is a safer bet to put the ball in play tonight than he usually is, and his season strikeout rate does not show it. He strikes out 15% of the time against the kind of pitches Cody Bradford throws, compared with 24% against everyone else — 8 points better. The reason is the four-seam fb: Cody Bradford throws it 50% of the time, and Alika Williams strikes out 13% of the time against it across 45 plate appearances. A season strikeout rate averages every kind of pitcher he has faced, so a matchup like this disappears into it.

Published Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Alika Williams is a safer bet to put the ball in play tonight than he usually is, and his season strikeout rate does not show it. He strikes out 15% of the time against the kind of pitches Cody Bradford throws, compared with 24% against everyone else — 8 points better. The reason is the four-seam fb: Cody Bradford throws it 50% of the time, and Alika Williams strikes out 13% of the time against it across 45 plate appearances. A season strikeout rate averages every kind of pitcher he has faced, so a matchup like this disappears into it.

THE NUMBERS

player id
675961
player name
Alika Williams
team
Athletics
matchup
Athletics @ Texas Rangers
pitcher name
Cody Bradford
direction
comfortable
headline
-8 pts
weighted krate
0.153
own baseline
0.236
k delta
-0.083
weighted avg
0.27
mix covered
0.859
detail
Alika Williams is a safer bet to put the ball in play tonight than he usually is, and his season strikeout rate does not show it. He strikes out 15% of the time against the kind of pitches Cody Bradford throws, compared with 24% against everyone else — 8 points better. The reason is the four-seam fb: Cody Bradford throws it 50% of the time, and Alika Williams strikes out 13% of the time against it across 45 plate appearances. A season strikeout rate averages every kind of pitcher he has faced, so a matchup like this disappears into it.

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