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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I've not seen him bat either except for when we played him. Looks like to me he is sneakily very strong. Meaning he doesn't look like bro-neill. 
That ball flys out of there as good as any ballpark. But, still, some of the balls were way inside and low and he hit some foul near the top of that place. Put them in the 2nd deck in left center. Its just one game. Maybe DJ or Hamas can tell us if this is normal for the guy? |
The exit velocities and launch angles are legit. He's always played in a beneficial home park, save for when they added humidity in Arizona starting last year, which made it a neutral park.
Goldschmidt is top 30 in barrel % and exit velocity. That means that he squares it up and hits it hard, and while he does strike out a lot, he also walks a good amount and he's not a dead pull hitter, which is how you can maintain a good BA and OBP with power while still having a 22-25% K-rate.
No game like that is normal, but those would have been out of any park.
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