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Old 06-12-2013, 01:42 PM   #1910
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He can't bat cleanup right now, IMO.

He doesn't have enough power, he's too slow on the bases and really, he's not good enough at getting on base and working pitchers for guys like Molina and Freese behind him.

He has a nice enough OBP, but its largely BA fueled and that BA comes on the strength of a .357 BABIP, which is exclusively luck given the fact that he isn't beating out any infield base hits. If you equalize his BABIP to .300, he loses 13 basehits. Suddenly his BA drops to .259. At that point he's sporting an OBP of barely .300 with nominal power.

He's not actually been very good this year. He's been very lucky. He needs to start drawing walks or hitting for power because expecting him to continue to hit .400 w/ RISP or put up a .360 BABIP is just folly.
He's obviously going to have to hit for more power, but I like his simple approach coming off the DL. I think he profiles as a cleanup guy, or thought he did, but he's going to have to hit for more power.
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