Turner, L. Webb, Stowers, Elder, Crews

Turner has been a BA drag … Entering 2026, Trea Turner (SS, PHI) had never finished a season with a batting average lower than .267 and owned a lifetime .297 batting average in 5,606 PA. What’s going on here?

Year	PA	HR	SB	BA/xBA	bb%	ct%	GB/LD/FB	h%	HctX	PX/xPX	HR/F	Spd	SBO%
2022	706	21	27	.297/.267	6%	79%	42/21/35	34%	110	107/114	11%	135	17%
2023	696	27	30	.264/.259	6%	76%	39/20/39	30%	111	113/121	13%	138	20%
2024	539	21	19	.295/.263	5%	80%	47/16/36	33%	113	103/ 97	14%	118	17%
2025	577	14	32	.301/.267	7%	81%	46/19/34	35%	110	90/ 85	9%	155	25%
2026	410	10	16	.236/.234	6%	76%	46/16/36	28%	104	78/ 96	9%	106	20%

There has been some skills slippage:

• This would tie 2023 as the worst ct% of his career and his xBA has never been this bad. He has typically outpaced xBA, but his h% is sub-30% for the first time...

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