Tatis Jr., Luzardo, Hicks, Vásquez, Bauers

Tatis Jr. suffering a power outage … After hitting 20 or more HR in every MLB season aside from the COVID shortened 2020 season, it’s quite surprising to see Fernando Tatis Jr. (OF, SD) enter May without a HR. What is going on?

YearPAHR/SBBA/xBAbb%/ct%GB/LD/FBh%HctXPX/xPXBrl%HR/FSpd/SB%/SBO
202363525/29.257/.2668/7547/19/3330128115/11911%17%93/87%/23%
202443821/11.276/.2757/7546/20/3331121132/11915%20%102/78%/14%
202569125/32.268/.26513/7848/17/3330122105/10811%15%131/82%/20%
20261390/9.261/.22210/7250/23/263613641/10513%0%162/81%/27%

The skills aren’t that different from what we’re accustomed to seeing:

  • He’s still making lots of hard contact, as evidenced by Brl%, a 99th percentile HH% (62%). However, his launch angle has crashed to...

Almost!

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