Crazy that so many even questioned if albies could hit 20 in a season.
Crazy that so many even questioned if albies could hit 20 in a season.
Natural Immunity Croc
Garmel (09-23-2021)
Hopefully the misconception of Ozzie as a sparky little guy who can hit leadoff has been permanently discarded. He needs to be aggressive to be successful and he's really a run producer, not a run scorer. And I think he gets a little out of whack when he hits leadoff. At 3 or 4 he's clearly more comfortable. Frankly, Freddie looks good at 2, too.
Do we even have a high OBP guy to lead off? I guess Ronald will handle it when he's back. He's not ideal, either, but at least it doesn't screw with his head.
With the bat, I think he's going to be fine. I haven't seen any glaring problems behind the plate since his return, and last night he caught a nice game, but he was rough earlier in the year and I don't know how well he thinks along with his pitcher.
He might be the one to trade if Langeliers can hit .250.
Natural Immunity Croc
I thought I remembered Ozzie having a 70 grade hit tool at some point coming up.
Enscheff did a nice analysis of this a while back where he used xwOBA, demonstrated the difference between Ozzie L & R and the league L & R with and without the platoon advantage and determined that even if Ozzie suffered double the normal platoon disadvantage R on R, he would still have a substantially higher xwOBA RH vs LH against RHP.
edit: post #8
http://www.chopcountry.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=10704
Last edited by GovClintonTyree; 09-23-2021 at 09:25 AM. Reason: new info
Also can the residence babies please stop this nonsense that the Phillies are going to win the division?