Ozzie Albies thread

[Deester11]

He is K’n at 20%, which is in line with AAA last season (20.1% over 448 PA). He should realize he can’t hit everything.

Let's trade him since we have Demeritte! He's adjusted to every level and he's even been slow in a few. I've seen the better Ozzie his entire minor league career. He will adjust jeez.

[msstate7]

Let's trade him since we have Demeritte! He's adjusted to every level and he's even been slow in a few. I've seen the better Ozzie his entire minor league career. He will adjust jeez.

Yeah, I said trade him.

[Enscheff]

Yeah Ozzie needs to make an adjustment in how he approaches his at bats. He needs to learn to take advantage of first pitch mistakes but lay off them if they aren't in his absolute wheelhouse. He just needs to work on pitch recognition. He has also been out in front on a lot of offspeed stuff. He obviously has fantastic bat to ball skills, but his approach definitely needs refinement. I think he will learn that as time goes on.

I said last year that Albies hit too many fly balls. He eventually tamped that down and became productive as expected. He is not a power hitter based on his exit velocities. He needs to hit more than 12% line drives. We all know that. He probably knows that.

This year he is doing the same thing he did early upon his promotion...50% fly balls. That figure needs to come WAY down and it almost certainly will.

I also stated repeatedly during ST that pitchers will quickly figure out he is trying to ambush first pitch fastballs:

Albies ambushed another first pitch fastball.

Pitchers will have to adjust to that

Now Albies has to adjust back.

It's been 4 games...Albies will be fine.

[GeorgiaGirl]

I said last year that Albies hit too many fly balls. He eventually tamped that down and became productive as expected. He is not a power hitter based on his exit velocities. He needs to hit more than 12% line drives. We all know that. He probably knows that.

This year he is doing the same thing he did early upon his promotion...50% fly balls. That figure needs to come WAY down and it almost certainly will.

More concerning than that is he’s combined it with swinging at every single pitch that is close this time from the eye test because of his mentality that he thinks that he can hit everything.
And he hasn’t shown the breakers issue like Dansby had, so he probably can hit most pitches that are in the strike zone. There’s really nothing that can be done about this other than a day off/temporary drop in the order because he’s shown he will walk, he’s just very aggressive.
You honestly can argue (unless he just fixes it on his own which is possible because he fixed what we saw last year) that this could get even more frustrating than 2017 Dansby. As people get easily frustrated by these types when they’re just swinging away at almost every pitch they see.

[Deester11]

I said last year that Albies hit too many fly balls. He eventually tamped that down and became productive as expected. He is not a power hitter based on his exit velocities. He needs to hit more than 12% line drives. We all know that. He probably knows that.

This year he is doing the same thing he did early upon his promotion...50% fly balls. That figure needs to come WAY down and it almost certainly will.

I also stated repeatedly during ST that pitchers will quickly figure out he is trying to ambush first pitch fastballs:



Now Albies has to adjust back.

It's been 4 games...Albies will be fine.

All of this.

[Deester11]

Yeah, I said trade him.

You did?

[Hulavol]

Ozzie looked damn good tonight, and the double play was pure gold....not to mention the twelve pitch AB with hit..

[msstate7]

Ozzie looked damn good tonight, and the double play was pure gold....not to mention the twelve pitch AB with hit..

Outstanding night. Hopefully he is about to go on a tear

[SJ24]

I said last year that Albies hit too many fly balls. He eventually tamped that down and became productive as expected. He is not a power hitter based on his exit velocities. He needs to hit more than 12% line drives. We all know that. He probably knows that.

This year he is doing the same thing he did early upon his promotion...50% fly balls. That figure needs to come WAY down and it almost certainly will.

I also stated repeatedly during ST that pitchers will quickly figure out he is trying to ambush first pitch fastballs:



Now Albies has to adjust back.

It's been 4 games...Albies will be fine.

Why does Ozzie need to hit specifically more than 12% line drives? Is that not an arbitrary number?

[50PoundHead]

I said last year that Albies hit too many fly balls. He eventually tamped that down and became productive as expected. He is not a power hitter based on his exit velocities. He needs to hit more than 12% line drives. We all know that. He probably knows that.

This year he is doing the same thing he did early upon his promotion...50% fly balls. That figure needs to come WAY down and it almost certainly will.

I also stated repeatedly during ST that pitchers will quickly figure out he is trying to ambush first pitch fastballs:



Now Albies has to adjust back.

It's been 4 games...Albies will be fine.

I made a similar point earlier. His flyball numbers (especially flyballs to the opposite field) have to come down, at least at this point in his career/physical development. His hits last night were two line drives and a hard-hit ground ball. He needs to stay within himself and build on that.

[50PoundHead]

Why does Ozzie need to hit specifically more than 12% line drives? Is that not an arbitrary number?

It's a low number. It needs to be a higher number. Not arbitrary at all.

[thewupk]

Why does Ozzie need to hit specifically more than 12% line drives? Is that not an arbitrary number?

Because flyballs that aren't hit hard and groundballs are bad for hits?

[nsacpi]

I believe HartCoppy offered Albies to the Tigers as part of a prospective trade for Fulmer.

[Super]

I believe HartCoppy offered Albies to the Tigers as part of a prospective trade for Fulmer.

that was a rumor with no substantiation.

[thethe]

I believe HartCoppy offered Albies to the Tigers as part of a prospective trade for Fulmer.

Fulmer loOKs like he may be real good.

[Deester11]

Fulmer loOKs like he may be real good.

He does but I'd still rather Ozzie. I just think he'll be indispensable with Acuña. Albies, Pache, Acuña...nice young foundation.

[Hulavol]

He does but I'd still rather Ozzie. I just think he'll be indispensable with Acuña. Albies, Pache, Acuña...nice young foundation.

This- all day long.

[GeorgiaGirl]

More importantly than the 3 hits were on the last hit, he really worked to get it. Still no BB's but that shows you, he knows the zone.

[Tapate50]

that was a rumor with no substantiation.

Also likely the minimum "ask" from the Tigers.

[SJ24]

Because flyballs that aren't hit hard and groundballs are bad for hits?

This is not what I'm asking.

Why 12% instead of 13% or 14%?