Bakermetrics: Walks and Aggressive at bats

Team OBP
2008 .319
2007 .335

Number of walks per game
2008 3.5
2007 3.3

I know the knock on Dusty is that he hates OBP, but by going off those numbers it's obvious Dusty preaching more aggressive ABs isn't really doing anything other than having players swinging at pitches they can't hit solidly resulting in more weakly hit balls, less line drives, and ultimately lower batting average.

Team BA
2008 .246
2007 .267

To be fair I should look at the constants from last years team and compare them to this year. Im going to compare their Avg/OBP/Slug lines, BB%, LD%, pitches per plate appearance, and BABIP(batting average of balls in play).

Edwin Encarnacion
2008
.246/.333/.474
BB% 10.3
LD% 18
P/PA 3.8
BABIP .252
2007
.289/.356/.438
BB% 7.7
LD% 22
P/PA 3.7
BABIP .322

Brandon Phillips
2008
.269/.317/.462
BB% 6.9
LD% 18
P/PA 3.6
BABIP .286
2007
.289/.332/.488
BB% 5.2
LD% 19
P/PA 3.6
BABIP .304

Adam Dunn
2008
.233/.373/.528
BB% 18.3
LD% 15
P/PA 4.3
BABIP .243
2007
.264/.386/.554
BB% 17.0
LD% 23
P/PA 4.2
BABIP .305

Ken Griffey Junior
2008
.245/.355/.432
BB% 16.9
LD% 17
P/PA 4.0
BABIP .258
2007
.278/.374/.498
BB% 15.5
LD% 18
P/PA 4.0
BABIP .284

I think thats good enough proof to suggest Dusty is a negative influence on overall approach of Reds players. I could go a little bit farther and list the ground ball rates from last year and this year also, but I'm lazy. Of course its completely possible that the 4 main stay overs suddenly all showed the same change in numbers for no reason at all making all this crap I typed completely worthless.