Only a couple of days into the season, I shared the super early hitter average bat speed risers and fallers. Though bat speed does stabilize quickly, it’s still subject to small sample caveats. Now nearly a month and a half later, let’s revisit the metric, as the numbers now will give us a much better idea of which hitters have enjoyed sustainable bat speed increases or suffered from losses.
Angels
• Yoán Moncada (.826 OPS, 2 HR) with three straight starts at third base since coming off the IL. Read the rest of this entry »
Here are the latest playing time projection changes for position players since April 29th. Andy Pages‘ scorching couple weeks has his playing time going way up after looking to be on the precipice of losing his spot for the first three weeks of the season.
We’re just over a fifth of the way through the season, which feels like prime time to start making trade offers. I typically use this time to identify my team’s overperformers and underperforming targets on my leaguemates’ teams and then send out a flurry of offers. You never know how other owners value your overperforming players or whether they have become impatient with their own underperformers. So it’s worth finding out by engaging in trade talks. Today, I’ll review the top underperformers and overperformers by comparing wOBA versus Statcast’s xwOBA. We know the latter isn’t perfect, but it’s the best metric we currently have to evaluate expected performance to-date.
Angels
• Nolan Schanuel hit second for the last three games after batting sixth for most of the season.
• Kyren Paris is losing playing time (seven starts over the past 10 games) and his hitting just .033/.065/.067 for the past two weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Here are the latest playing time projection changes for position players since April 15th. Get ready for Nick Kurtz’s debut on Wednesday!
Usually this early in the season, I would share the xwOBA under/overperformers. However, a suppressed or inflated BABIP has a dramatic impact on the gap between wOBA and xwOBA and since we remain in small sample size territory for the metric, I didn’t want to include a list of obvious names. We all assume a sub-.200 BABIP is going to rebound! Likewise, a .450 BABIP isn’t sustainable. So instead, let’s review ISO versus xISO.
Angels
• Tim Anderson (.422 OPS) and Kevin Newman (.273 OPS) split time at shortstop. Read the rest of this entry »
Here are the latest playing time projection changes for position players since April 8th, highlighted by a couple of interesting prospects forcing their way to — or closer to — the majors.
Angels
• Tim Anderson started in the last five games while batting ninth. Read the rest of this entry »
