Are MLB’s Top Hitters Struggling or Sabotaged? The Shocking Truth Behind Their Slow Starts Revealed!
Just three players have a wider negative gap between their weighted on-base average and “expected” wOBA based on exit velocities and launch angles. And his BABIP is tied for the 19th worst in MLB among qualified batters. Eventually, Alvarez will stop hitting the ball right at people.
Is he bad now? No. Alvarez is on the injured list now with hand inflammation. Maybe the break will allow the baseball gods to rethink their cruelty toward him.
Cody Bellinger, New York Yankees
The Numbers: .202/.275/.360; 4 HRs; 76.9 RV+; 79 wRC+; 0.1 fWAR
What’s gone wrong? Everything except his solid outfield defense, which is one of the only things about Bellinger that you can take to the bank year after year. Most notably, Bellinger has seen a decline in his percentage of pulled balls in the air, which tend to be the ones that result in homers – especially at Yankee Stadium. He’s perennially near the top of MLB in that stat, sitting north of 21% in each of the past five seasons, but this year’s figure has dipped to a more normal 18.2%.

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