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Originally Posted by -King-
In other news... Myers hasn't been anything special in triple A this year...
Currently .275/.372/.422 and has hit .171 the last 10 games.
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It's possible he's merely bored.
It's also possible, considering his immense K rate (40 in 117 ABs) that his new approach is getting exploited OR that the Rays are having him work on something (I know they did not like his OF defense, reportedly, but possibly they're tinkering with his hitting approach, too).
He has struck out 40 times in 117 ABs. That's a 34.2 percent K rate. This is HIGHER than Bubba Starling's extremely alarming K rate.
This is HIGHER than Drew Stubbs' MLB K rate. This is 7 points higher than Stubbs' career minor league K rate.
If you're wondering if this is merely a small sample size... if you look at the past two seasons, since Myers went to the power-focused approached, he STILL has a K rate higher than Stubbs. He has struck out 180 times in 639 AB since the start of the 2012 season.
That works out to 28.2 percent.
Let's compare that to guys Myers is commonly compared to.
Ryan Braun - Minor league K rate of 19.7 percent
Dale Murphy - Minor league K rate of 17.0 percent
Jayson Werth - Minor league K rate of 24.5 percent
Jay Bruce - Minor league K rate of 25.2 percent
Jeff Francoeur - Minor league K rate of 18 percent
Myers' K rate leads me to think he's much less Ryan Braun/Dale Murphy and much more Werth/Bruce, with a floor of Stubbs/Francoeur.