The compariosn to Santana is not really a fair one since Santana has never been a high K-guy. Bryce Harper whiffs more than Grandal to name another high walk/high strikeout guy.
You said thtat if Grandal wasn’t walking he would be striking out as much as your average pitcher. But, even if you ignore the walks he is swinging and missing and striking out less than other players. But whatever, Grandal is not among the top 10 of this team‘s problems.
Whiff percentage is not influenced by the outcome of the at bat. Just by the percentage of the batter swinging and missing, Regardless, Grandl not chasing pitches is now supposed to work against him? Strange logic.
Nope, contact-percentage better than Abreu‘s.
And I wasn’t talking about the total number of strikeouts, but rather his K-rate. Grandal is having rotten batted ball luck, I don’t know why this is so hard to admit.
That doesn’t make sense. Hitting the ball hard is the only thing a batter can control- If you want to see the batted ball profile of a guy slwoing down because of his age, check out Miggy‘s baseballsavant üage.
Imstill fail to see what there is to be gained from drawing conclusions about postseason matchups based on a series. Baseball has so much variance that this a futile endeavor.
Grandal is still an above average hitter with a historically low BABIP, Hendriks has a 2.5xFIP. Abysmal failures LOl.
Grandal and Hendriks are not the buggest probkem on this team. They won’t probably make top 10.
When the Sox went to Boston they won like 10 in a row. Judging individual series is pretty silly anyway. Remember when the 100 loss White Sox took three out of four from the WS winning Astros?