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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I'm kind of amazed that DeJong has doubled his walk rate from last year. His decline in average is directly correlated to a decrease in his BABIP (which was unsustainable last year), but his ISO is very close to last year. He hasn't played as well defensively, though.
Carpenter is hitting more line drives this year and fewer flyballs. It will depress his HR totals, but his average has to creep up. Just be patient. Fowler has the worst BABIP in baseball and Carpenter is 10th worst, but 40% of his contact is hard. It's just bad luck. If you bench him now, you're likely robbing the team of his regression to the mean, which means a month where he hits .400.
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Yeah DeJong legitimately drawing walks is surprising. Iirc, and I’m too lazy to look, he’s stroll striking out a fair amount but atleast the walks are there so theoretically I guess it’s better.
I’m just not sure he’s the long term short stop