I’m beginning to think some posters actually (or at least mostly) bought into that facetious sobriquet.
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Knock it off guys
lol
https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/expec...am=ATL&min=100
Decided to go ahead and just post the thing for Atlanta. It's really incredible from Acuna, like it or not the stats say he's getting a fair amount of bad luck.
Also, as I've said elsewhere before, while he's definitely not going to hit 40+ HR, given that Albies is beating expected stats himself and has for 100+ games, you have to start wondering if you can place him in the category of "beats expected stats" as well, like Inciarte (and others for sure).
When Nick decides to take a **** on a thread it'd be great if the mods would start a new one or remove the bull**** from the thread so we can go back through the relevant posts without the nonsense.
I like it when our players get lucky too. And I like understanding what is luck and what is not.
There was this crazy discussion a while back about Acuna's .400+ BABIP numbers in the minors. Led to some weird expectations.
Btw going into this season I liked Albies more as a player, both this season and for his career.
But I'm starting to change my view, luck-inflected outcomes notwithstanding. Acuna looks mighty impressive at the plate to me. A bit disappointing in the field though.
But no...he isn't the next Trout.