JBJ in August
- Thread starter The Tax Man
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I assume the greater variability in monthly OPS vs. LHP is a sample-size thing? Just doing it in a seat-of-the-pants way, if you do a two-month weighted average of those LHP OPS numbers you get .704 in 65 PA, .635 in 72 PA, and .633 in 70 PA. So JBJ hasn't really been more inconsistent vs. LHP than RHP when you're comparing apples to apples opportunity-wise (though he has obviously been worse).
It seems to me he sometimes forgets to hit to the opposite field. When he's facing lefties and getting pounded outside, he's going to roll everything over to 2B.
I'm not sure how much this is to blame, but his BABIP vs. LHP in August is .167, so there also might be a little bad luck added to not doing well.
I'm not sure how much this is to blame, but his BABIP vs. LHP in August is .167, so there also might be a little bad luck added to not doing well.
There's no way to prove this, of course, but I get the sense that when he's going well, he's reacting to the pitch and hitting it, and his unusual ability to catch up to and drive high fastballs helps him turn that approach into a weapon. I get the sense when he's performing poorly, he's trying to guess what's coming, which leads him to flail away on the breaking stuff and miss the high fastballs he would catch up to with his more successful organic approach.