Cal Raleigh’s Surprising Surge: What’s Fueling His Latest Breakout?
But trust me, Raleigh’s struggles can’t be chalked up to just one factor. He’s chasing pitches more eagerly than last year, missing way more strikes in the zone, and reducing his in-zone contact from 81.2% to a troubling 67.1%. Specifically, contact over the heart of the plate has dropped from 84.9% to 69.0%. Making more contact isn’t the whole answer; he needs sharper timing, smarter pitch selection, and cleaner connection
The Seattle Mariners didn’t need a copy of Cal Raleigh’s MVP-caliber 2025 to repeat as AL West champions this year. What they *will* need is not to repeat his frigid first foray in the big leagues back in 2021. Hard as it may be to remember (or, all too easy after the first two weeks of this season), Raleigh hit a brick wall in his first big league taste. He went .180/.223/.309 in his first 148 plate appearances across 47 games, a grisly 46 wRC+ with an unseemly 35.1% strikeout rate while walking just seven times in the bigs that year. It wasn’t until his 2022 return that Raleigh solidified himself as a star, in Seattle and then across the sport. Now, those expectations loom even larger, with the Big Dumper mucked up and mired in a .143/.236/.245 over his first 55 PAs this year, a 51 wRC+, and a funny-but-not-ha-ha-funny bad 38.2% punchout rate. He’s hit just one round-tripper, for goodness sake.
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