June 12, 20232 yr Got lost on Fangraphs again.. CHW Ranks: Launch Angle: 30/30 Barrel%: 22/30 HardHit%: 23/30 BB%: 30/30 edit: OSwing%: 30/30 (caught by Snopek) Other than Robert and Burger, starters in the lineup are at or very near a career low in Barrel%. Other than Robert, Vaughn, and Burger, starters in the lineup are at or very near a career low in LA. The trend for our players since 2020 has been a decline in both values. Sox have hit the second most ground balls (WSH leads by 10, but has played 3 less games) If it werent for Burger this offense would be rated the worst in MLB and it wouldn't be close. He barrels balls at a 20% clip which is elite (Robert is at 13% which is great). The Tampa Bay Rays are filled with players that barrel the ball. 7/9 of their starting lineup have a barrel% above 10% with double digit LAs. Sox have 2 (Burger and Robert) Other players on the team that have good barrel% but a low LA: Eloy (5.7 LA) and Romy (5.5 LA) White Sox are way worse than last year in terms of offense as the Menechino Magic is still going strong. Players that are at their career worse GB/FB or GB%: Tim Anderson Andrew Benintendi Eloy Jimenez (52% GB rate) Yoan Moncada If Jake Burger had the qualified number of atbats, he would be second to Judge in terms of FB/HR. 30% of flyballs hit by Burger have been home runs. Robert is at 21%. Vaughn has been incredibly unlucky. I think hes close to turning the corner offensively. Memo to Sox hitters: Ignore Sox hitting coaches and do what Burger is doing. Edited June 12, 20232 yr by reiks12
June 12, 20232 yr Burger is the one guy that has bucked the modern trend by actually adjusting his swing to the pitch rather than maintaining a static approach
June 12, 20232 yr Per Fangraphs, they are also 30/30 in O-Swing% aka chase rate aka swinging at pitches outside the strike zone. Pitch as well as you want, you can’t win with this kind of offense.
June 12, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, reiks12 said: Got lost on Fangraphs again.. CHW Ranks: Launch Angle: 30/30 Barrel%: 22/30 HardHit%: 23/30 BB%: 30/30 Other than Robert and Burger, starters in the lineup are at or very near a career low in Barrel%. Other than Robert, Vaughn, and Burger, starters in the lineup are at or very near a career low in LA. The trend for our players since 2020 has been a decline in both values. Sox have hit the second most ground balls (WSH leads by 10, but has played 3 less games) If it werent for Burger this offense would be rated the worst in MLB and it wouldn't be close. He barrels balls at a 20% clip which is elite (Robert is at 13% which is great). The Tampa Bay Rays are filled with players that barrel the ball. 7/9 of their starting lineup have a barrel% above 10% with double digit LAs. Sox have 2 (Burger and Robert) Other players on the team that have good barrel% but a low LA: Eloy (5.7 LA) and Romy (5.5 LA) White Sox are way worse than last year in terms of offense as the Menechino Magic is still going strong. Players that are at their career worse GB/FB or GB%: Tim Anderson Andrew Benintendi Eloy Jimenez (52% GB rate) Yoan Moncada If Jake Burger had the qualified number of atbats, he would be second to Judge in terms of FB/HR. 30% of flyballs hit by Burger have been home runs. Robert is at 21%. Vaughn has been incredibly unlucky. I think hes close to turning the corner offensively. Memo to Sox hitters: Ignore Sox hitting coaches and do what Burger is doing. Great job Rick Hahn on assembling such a horrible flawed roster that have such a low baseball IQ and inability to make adjustments like Burger. Kudos also to Pedro Grifol and his hitting coach for working with the hitters to try and figure out what the good teams like the Rays do, by watching the Rays video of their good hitters and making the Sox hitters make some necessary adjustments in their plate discipline and swing approach.. Can this team be anymore dysfunctional and hard to follow?
June 12, 20232 yr last in launch angle and BB% and first in O-Swing%. That is absolutely fucking amazing.
June 12, 20232 yr Sox like free-swingers. I'm sure the coaches in the org. try to tamp it down some but, in the end, you live or die with it. And when it goes bad, it gets ugly.
June 12, 20232 yr Author 2 hours ago, Snopek said: Per Fangraphs, they are also 30/30 in O-Swing% aka chase rate aka swinging at pitches outside the strike zone. Pitch as well as you want, you can’t win with this kind of offense. Ah thank you, i have no clue how I missed that.
June 12, 20232 yr Huh, so basically running it back with new but still subpar coaching didn’t magically fix this mess? Nor did spending $75M on a bat with no pop?
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