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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
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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l thought he’d get better with a return to leadoff but how can this just be bad luck on batted balls?
2018 Carp batting leadoff
BA .080
OBP .207
SLG .120
OPS .327