[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Dozier has been poopy since returning 6/21. He’s backsliding into his old ways: high Ks with low power. In the 70PA since, his K rate has jumped from 19% to 33%. And he has 2hr 3 doubles in that time.


Let’s hope he reverts back to earlier form.

From David Lesky's Friday Notes:

I hope the All-Star break was all that Hunter Dozier needed to get back to doing what he was doing before he got hurt. He’s hit just .190/.271/.365 since his return in mid-June with two home runs. The plus side is that he’s still hitting the snot out of the ball. His average exit velocity since his return is 92.9 MPH, which is quite good. His hard hit rate is above 50 percent in that time and on balls he’s hit 100 MPH or harder, he’s 8 for 14 (.571) while the league average is .629. Now that’s not really that far off in that small of a sample, just one hit, but still, it’s a continued trend from earlier this season when he was destroying balls. But even so, the issue isn’t really bad luck. It’s that he’s chasing way more pitches now than he did before he was injured. His selectiveness was a big reason why I saw him as a breakout candidate who would stick. Before the injury, he was swinging at 27 percent of pitches outside the strike zone. Since he’s been back, that number is up a good amount to 34.1 percent. He’s also swinging at more pitches inside the zone since he’s been back, which isn’t always a good thing. It could be that he’s forced to because he’s swung at two bad pitches early in the count to get him to a spot where he can’t take a strike, even if it’s not the one to drive. And finally, he’s swung and missed on 13.7 percent of pitches since his return, which is way up from 8.3 percent before. Add it all up and you can see why he’s struggling. Hopefully these last four days have given him a chance to reset and he’ll come back the Dozier we saw before the injury.