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Originally Posted by cosmo20002
Not if he's swinging and missing good pitches. I said he was still being selective. Two months is not insignificant. He's striking out more and getting on base less. You can analyze it all you want but that's the bottom line and over a two-month period, it is worth being concerned about.
Are you trying to argue he's been just as good the last two months as he was prior? You're just saying he's been unlucky?
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Yes, he's been unlucky. Every metric you can find supports that conclusion.
He's not swinging and missing good pitches. That's demonstrated by his OSwing%, his ZSwing% and his contact rate
There is also not a single person in the analytical field who things that 150 PAs is a significant sample size.
Yes, he's been just as good. That's supported by his walk rate, and his LD rate. He's hitting the ball just as hard and walking more often. He's not swinging at a lot more strikes. If that was the case, he wouldn't have seen four percent fewer strikes.
In order for your claim to have validity, he'd have to be missing at pitches out of the zone 30% more than he normally does, and there is no indication that is the case.