Tatis Jr., Luzardo, O. Lopez, Vásquez, L. Hicks

Tatis Jr. suffering a power outage … After hitting 20 or more HR in each of his MLB seasons 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...

Almost!

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