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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Fowler doesn't have more power potential than Heyward, but Heyward hasn't shown an ability to routinely drive the baseball for 2 seasons.
If you guys can unlock him, you're absolutely right. But all you really need to do is watch him take a warmup swing. If he's standing in the on-deck circle and still doing fence drills then you'll know that the guy still can't hit for shit.
It'll take one spring AB to know if you're going to get more XBH or a better ISO from Heyward than you got from Fowler. At this point, I give it a 50/50 shot at best.
That said, if you do, then you'll get WAY more because if someone completely tore apart Heyward's swing and rebuilt it from the ground up, they'd have a potential 30 HR player on their hands. The guys natural power is absurd, he just does more than any player I've ever seen to sabotage himself. It really is ridiculous.
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They don't have to "unlock" Heyward for him to have more power than Fowler.
Just look at their SLG%. Heywards was 28 points higher last season. His OPS+ was 9 points higher.
He's a better hitter than Fowler, plain and simple. Fowler just walks more.