After hitting 3 fly balls in 4 PAs tonight, Albies' fly ball rate is going to be over 50%. That is bad, but why, exactly?
Albies has an average FB/LD exit velocity of 90.2 MPH: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statc...resp_batter_id
That places him in the bottom third of all MLB hitters. Quite simply, he doesn't hit the ball very hard.
According to this chart: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ce-of-hitting/
The value of fly balls hit at 90 MPH is very low (look at all that purple).
Albies needs to stay out of the purple area of the chart. He needs to be hitting LDs and GBs with launch angles between about 5 and 20 degrees. When/if his FB exit velocity ticks up closer to 95, he can start trying to elevate more batted balls.
