2019 Around the MLB

[KluberSociety]

Still with his OBP ability,1 HR in 30 or so ABs is fine. The HRs he hit at the beginning of the year still happened, so it's hard to look at it as a total aberration. You could make the argument that injuries slowed down his power recently.

 

[sportscoach]

Yandy is a pure line drive hitter, but doesnt have a high angle to his swings, but in certain ball parks, he will hit it out just because of the fact he can hit balls 105 mph+ pretty easily. He has been hitting less ground balls and more balls into the air, hence why the HR numbers are up, but I would never expect him to go over 15 HRs in any season, but I could see 40+ doubles in any season though, but never over 15 HRs.

 

[Derek]

Yandy is a pure line drive hitter and in certain ball parks, he will hit it out just because of the fact he can hit balls 105 mph+ pretty easily. He has been hitting less ground balls and more balls into the air, hence why the HR numbers are up, but I would never expect him to go over 15 HRs in any season, but I could see 40+ doubles in any season though, but never over 15 HRs.

He'll probably end up over 15 this year just because of his fast start, but overall I think your assessment is accurate.

His groundball rate really hasn't gone down this year. It's within 2% of where it was last year. The real adjustment he's made is that he's actually pulled a few flyballs this year. He pulled 4.4% of his flyballs in 2017 and 0% last year. This year it is at 16.1%.

Still with his OBP ability,1 HR in 30 or so ABs is fine. The HRs he hit at the beginning of the year still happened, so it's hard to look at it as a total aberration. You could make the argument that injuries slowed down his power recently.

You couldn't make a good argument. His power numbers were completely unsustainable. I never said he wasn't a fine hitter, but he was already a fine hitter before he went to Tampa.

Also, aberration doesn't mean it didn't happen. His early season power surge was definitely an aberration.

 

[KluberSociety]

You couldn't make a good argument. His power numbers were completely unsustainable. I never said he wasn't a fine hitter, but he was already a fine hitter before he went to Tampa.

Also, aberration doesn't mean it didn't happen. His early season power surge was definitely an aberration.

I didn't know we were at trial and that I had to present a "good argument" at this point. Lol. Just look at the Xstats and you'll see way more power this year in his stats. Whether he can keep up New Improved Yandy who knows, but if he's hitting the ball worth around .500 SLG then that's pretty damn good.

If you can cherry pick some arbitrary more recent range then certainly cherry picking this whole season is fair game, no?

It's the way you treat this so-called aberration that I take issue with, whatever you want to call it. Just because something isn't sustainable doesn't mean it warrants that kind of treatment. If we think maybe Tampa is bringing something out in Yandy that we didn't, what should we look at? The whole season. Duh.

 

[Derek]

I didn't know we were at trial and that I had to present a "good argument" at this point. Lol. Just look at the Xstats and you'll see way more power this year in his stats. Whether he can keep up New Improved Yandy who knows, but if he's hitting the ball worth around .500 SLG then that's pretty damn good.

If you can cherry pick some arbitrary more recent range then certainly cherry picking this whole season is fair game, no?

It's the way you treat this so-called aberration that I take issue with, whatever you want to call it. Just because something isn't sustainable doesn't mean it warrants that kind of treatment. If we think maybe Tampa is bringing something out in Yandy that we didn't, what should we look at? The whole season. Duh.

That’s the thing though, Tampa isn’t bringing something new out of him.

As I posted above, he has pulled a few more flyballs (a few more than zero) that should allow him to maintain a higher HR rate than he showed the last two years in Cleveland, and likely more in line with his minor league rates.

The 1 HR in 299 AB in Cleveland is a statistical outlier just like his early season power surge. He’ll probably settle in as a 10-15 HR per 700 PA guy.

 

[AZ_]

I didn't know we were at trial and that I had to present a "good argument" at this point. Lol. Just look at the Xstats and you'll see way more power this year in his stats. Whether he can keep up New Improved Yandy who knows, but if he's hitting the ball worth around .500 SLG then that's pretty damn good.

If you can cherry pick some arbitrary more recent range then certainly cherry picking this whole season is fair game, no?

It's the way you treat this so-called aberration that I take issue with, whatever you want to call it. Just because something isn't sustainable doesn't mean it warrants that kind of treatment. If we think maybe Tampa is bringing something out in Yandy that we didn't, what should we look at? The whole season. Duh.

His 5.5 degree average launch angle doesn't appear to be sustainable for power, regardless of the early power he showed.

Hopefully Bauers can continue showing improvement. Really, he just needs to make harder contact more consistently.

86mph exit velo
31% Hard Hit percentage
6.0 Barrel%

Compared to 91.5, 45%, 11% for Yandy

Different hitters, but even if Bauer ticks up slightly, his launch angle suggest he would surpass Yandy from an offensive value standpoint.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Really cool event going on during all-star week:

Congrats @glen... damn, his name's gone from the site?

 

[BMAN]

Really cool event going on during all-star week:

Congrats @glen... damn, his name's gone from the site?

I checked Red Space out for a possible reception for my wedding last month. Really cool building inside. Good for Glen though.

 

[NorthCoastBias]

Pretty sure Glen is a Lakers fan now. Think his wagon was hitched to James.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

I guess "RealLeBronFans" didn't have the same ring to it?

 

[NorthCoastBias]

I guess "RealLeBronFans" didn't have the same ring to it?

Lord knows there’s more then enough posters still here who would like that.

 

[Joe Charboneau]

Lord knows there’s more then enough posters still here who would like that.

Funny, like the ongoing debate in the Lebron section now. Cavs fans rooting for the Lakers to win titles now. Its mind boggling.

 

[sportscoach]

I didn't know we were at trial and that I had to present a "good argument" at this point. Lol. Just look at the Xstats and you'll see way more power this year in his stats. Whether he can keep up New Improved Yandy who knows, but if he's hitting the ball worth around .500 SLG then that's pretty damn good.

If you can cherry pick some arbitrary more recent range then certainly cherry picking this whole season is fair game, no?

It's the way you treat this so-called aberration that I take issue with, whatever you want to call it. Just because something isn't sustainable doesn't mean it warrants that kind of treatment. If we think maybe Tampa is bringing something out in Yandy that we didn't, what should we look at? The whole season. Duh.

I actually agree with @Derek on this one at the end of the day, he really wasn't cherry picking to be honest since that was the one stat that is really different for Yandy this season than last season, which is part of the reason why his power is up.

Yandy Diaz Statcast, Visuals & Advanced Metrics | MLB.com

(null) Avg Exit Velocity: 91.2, Hard Hit %: 43.6, wOBA: .340, xwOBA: .346, Barrel %: 6.4.

baseballsavant.mlb.com

Exit velocity is 91.5, league average is 88.9 and his hit angle is 5.5 and the average is 12.6, his power numbers are not sustainable mostly because of the way he swings since he doesn't swing for the fences, but swings for contact. Also another stat that has changed this season is his barrel % since it is up from 4.4 last season to 11.0 this year. Essentially good swings will hit HRs and since he doesn't lift the ball much in his swing, he will likely always hit a fair amount of doubles, but his HRs will never be high unless he changes that angle of his swing.

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They say the perfect angle for a HR is 27 degrees, Yandy normally hits it at 5.5 degrees, using that chart in the link, most of Yandy's hits barely go above 6-7 ft in the air on average, so how many hits can you expect to go out that way? That game right there can show you what Yandy's angles look like and you can blow crap up while doing it! lol

 

[Stark]

Chris Sale lit up again today. ERA up to 4.04. WHIP at 1.07 (which is still pretty good, but not for his standards).

Red Sox pitching rotation from ace to closer is not that good folks. They better hope their offense can carry.

 

[sportscoach]

Chris Sale lit up again today. ERA up to 4.04. WHIP at 1.07 (which is still pretty good, but not for his standards).

Red Sox pitching rotation from ace to closer is not that good folks. They better hope their offense can carry.

Indians arent out of the playoffs at all, if anything we have gotten back in this thing since we are 6.5 back of the Twins, and we hold the second WIld Card spot. This has always been a second half team and right now we are close enough to strike and maybe get the division with at least a solid RH middle of the order bat, and maybe another veteran BP arm.