Duran was a lot less consistent last year and his September looks an awful lot like his cold streaks last season. What seems to be affecting him disproportionately is that his legs seem to be tired - they haven’t been sending him (though I think he has the green light so he hasn’t been running) and he’s been getting tagged out more. This is probably something that I would look to if I was deciding to sell high on him, because his early thirties are going to look a lot like this. He hit a career high in home runs but I really think that’s an outlier.
i don’t know that you can or could blame the lack of hitting on Cora but it’s the lack of energy from the team during ABs that he should be dealing with. Like we all know they’ve been dogshit at the plate as a whole for quite a while now. Carlson had a 10 pitch AB from Bello which Bello was able to get out of but I thought about that Valdez AB where he forced the pitcher into throwing a slider to Rafaela who hit it out right after. The Stats tweet quoted upthread is what I’m talking about, even if they’re ice cold they should be making life difficult for the pitcher instead of handing them single digit and 10 pitch innings for three outs.
How much of that is on Cora, I couldn’t tell you, but they all look miserable out there and while they’ve been playing badly, it’s not like they’re the White Sox. They’re a game under .500!
i don’t know that you can or could blame the lack of hitting on Cora but it’s the lack of energy from the team during ABs that he should be dealing with. Like we all know they’ve been dogshit at the plate as a whole for quite a while now. Carlson had a 10 pitch AB from Bello which Bello was able to get out of but I thought about that Valdez AB where he forced the pitcher into throwing a slider to Rafaela who hit it out right after. The Stats tweet quoted upthread is what I’m talking about, even if they’re ice cold they should be making life difficult for the pitcher instead of handing them single digit and 10 pitch innings for three outs.
How much of that is on Cora, I couldn’t tell you, but they all look miserable out there and while they’ve been playing badly, it’s not like they’re the White Sox. They’re a game under .500!