In Praise of the Little King
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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Hope AA consults with John Hart before doing it.
UNCBlue012
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Ozzie has been a rock of this team all year. The improvements are consistent. The kid can rake.
defense rebounded from early (advanced stat, anyway) struggles.
That 70 hit tool is showing up early
In fWAR Ozzie is still 3rd but only .4 WAR behind Alomar who had 70 more games. Albies is special.
NinersSBChamps
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The baseball is on steroids. Today is worse than the steroid era. Baseball is a joke right now.
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you realize fWAR/wRC+ is relative to the rest of the league, right? who are all using the same balls? or is that concept too complicated for your brain?
Nerfherders
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His numbers this season are otherworldly as a right-handed hitter. .397/.422/.699/1.121. 21 XBH in 146 AB.
Interestingly, last year he had almost 50 more PA against lefties than this year. Could be coincidence, but it's probably also teams avoiding his right side at all cost.
I applaud him for getting things turned around from the left side this year. For the second half last year and the first 2 months this year it was looking to me like he should ditch switch hitting.
Interestingly, last year he had almost 50 more PA against lefties than this year. Could be coincidence, but it's probably also teams avoiding his right side at all cost.
I applaud him for getting things turned around from the left side this year. For the second half last year and the first 2 months this year it was looking to me like he should ditch switch hitting.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
it swings back and forth, but this year we have faced an unusually small number of lefty starting pitchers. 36 so far this year vs 47 all of last season. For most of this season, the fillies have had no lefty starting pitchers and the other teams in division 1 each.
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It's important to note that folks who thought Albies would have "Atuve power" are not proven correct with his power output.
"Altuve power" with the 2019 super ball is about a .250 ISO. Albies' current .209 number is quite a bit below that. As is his 120 wRC+ value well below Altuve's 134.
But sure, if someone predicted, "Albies has 30 HR pop if they replace the baseball with a golf ball", they would have been proven correct.
At least Albies wasn't traded to make room for Travis Demerritte like many around here were suggesting when Ozzie was recovering from the broken elbow in AAA.
"Altuve power" with the 2019 super ball is about a .250 ISO. Albies' current .209 number is quite a bit below that. As is his 120 wRC+ value well below Altuve's 134.
But sure, if someone predicted, "Albies has 30 HR pop if they replace the baseball with a golf ball", they would have been proven correct.
At least Albies wasn't traded to make room for Travis Demerritte like many around here were suggesting when Ozzie was recovering from the broken elbow in AAA.
conalthomas
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In fairness, Altuve didn't have "Altuve power" (.250 ISO) when he was 22.
rico43
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Hey, Demeritte is slashing .220/3/10 in his 45 games with the Tigers since the trade!
I think the only aspect where Albies has surpassed expectations is the power as a RHH.
His average FB/LD exit velocity vs LHP of 94.5 mph is actually higher than Acuna's (JD at a remarkable 98.8 mph).
I'm not sure what the point of this post is. Ozzie is only 22. Altuve didn't develop much power til he was 25. Albies was at .171 his rookie season at age 20 compared to Altuve's .202 the same year at age 27. Last year, Ozzie had a substantially higher ISO.
I'm not going to predict the Ozzie will reach 30 homers and I doubt he consistently hits 25 homers or more (few do) but it certainly isn't nearly as unlikely as you pretend it is. He's improved his ISO every season thus far and is only 22.