Coming into tonight Kris Bryant had 2 hits in his last 17 ABs with 8 Ks, and he's the likely favorite for the NL MVP right now. Examining SSS numbers like this is fairly ridiculous in general, much less when Freddie is having the second best offensive season of his career so far.
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Coming into tonight Kris Bryant had 2 hits in his last 17 ABs with 8 Ks, and he's the likely favorite for the NL MVP right now. Examining SSS numbers like this is fairly ridiculous in general, much less when Freddie is having the second best offensive season of his career so far.
msstate7
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Hasn't Bryant always been a big strikeout guy though? Oh and you can't spell mSState7 without Small Sample size. I always get carried away good and bad with the SSSs haha
And yeah, Bryant is just below 24% K rate right now, and Freddie has jumped to 26%. Bryant was a 30% K rate guy last year and managed 6.5 WAR. But that's my main point, as long as Freddie is making solid contact overall (.275 batting avg right now even in a big slump) it really doesn't matter how much he Ks. An out is an out for the most part. Now if Freddie's batting average had dipped down to .250ish I might be worried, simply because that might be a sign of declining bat speed. But given that Freddie is right around his career batting avg, it looks more like he's swinging for the fences a bit more with the increased power. And I'd take a 5% increase in K rate for an extra 30 point jump in slugging and OPS every day of the week for a player as long as the batting avg stays the same.
Braves1976
It's OVER 5,000!
He's still around? Reminds me of this scene in Major League:
[video=youtube;LpZ3LODBK7E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZ3LODBK7E[/video]
rico43
<B>Director of Minor League Reports</B>
Braves will makes his sixth team since 2012. A lot of people must like him a little, but no one much likes him a lot.