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[TwentyThirtyFive]

For what its worth, and the SSS obviously applies here, he didnt slug. Which you know if youre gonna be a low avg, high K player you need the slug. 1 XBH(double) in those 9 hits

[makoman]

For what its worth, and the SSS obviously applies here, he didnt slug. Which you know if youre gonna be a low avg, high K player you need the slug. 1 XBH(double) in those 9 hits

It's worth very little, it's 51 ABs.

[BSLChrisStoner]

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[BSLChrisStoner]

42 ab's, High A...  .238 / .407 / .381..   .788 OPS...  1 homer, 7 steals

[Nigel Tufnel]

Law:

 

After two more strikeouts Saturday night and another Sunday, center fielder Vance Honeycutt, Baltimore’s first-round pick last year out of North Carolina, is up to 22 strikeouts in 59 plate appearances this year, or 37.2 percent of the time. One strikeout came on a 92-mph fastball at the letters, where he wasn’t even close, but the other wasn’t on him — it was a called third strike on a curveball closer to I-95 than it was to the plate. He’s swinging at strikes, but he’s whiffing too often and making a lot of incidental contact.

 

He still plays elite defense in center, and I know from past looks that there’s plus power in there. He needs some kind of overhaul or reset to be able to hit, and all I have are facile explanations like “it looks like he doesn’t see the ball.” Maybe it’s a pitch recognition issue, but if that were all, wouldn’t he also be flailing at breaking stuff out of the zone?

 

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[BSLRoseKatz]

Kinda funny EBJ and Honeycutt are contact with power concerns and power with contact concerns respectively, take a gamble on each weakness and see what works out in the end

[BobPhelan]

He was 1-3 with two walks and no strikeouts last night. Lets give him time to work on it, seems to be working with Fabian.