Not really considering he had a 31.5% K rate last year...
You can be as mad as you want about how they're using him. I'm just telling you like it is. Voit will be gone before Winker.
Voit hasn't looked the part of anything. He's K'ing 35% of the time and hasn't shown any power either. Winker at least makes contact and gets on base as good as anybody in the lineup. And for a team that otherwise struggles to get on base...
Bottom line is we traded for Winker. Voit was a minor league free agent signing. Winker has more leeway.
Because he was throwing 2 MPH slower, was terrible after April last year, proceeded to quit on the Yankees, and was previously suspended under the league's domestic abuse policy...
Yeah. You're right. Sweet spot% is probably better. I wasn't making the argument that he's back to MVP Yelich suddenly, but we're seeing some stuff that we haven't seen in a few years with his batted ball data.
"Average Launch Angle (aLA) is calculated by dividing the sum of all Launch Angles by all Batted Ball Events."
https://www.mlb.com/glossary/statcast/launch-angle
It's a statistic that measures how much a hitter is elevating the ball on average. Yelich is elevating the ball as much as he did in 2018 as well as hitting the ball as hard on average as he did that season. =a very good combination that hasn't been present over the past few years.
Statistics are more reliable and objective than the eye test. But you do you.
Surprised they aren't making up a phantom injury given the decline in his velocity. Pen seems like it would be best as he could hopefully rebuild his velocity in shorter stints.
But, yes, the current iteration of Lauer against the Cards was just asking for disaster.