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In other Braves' news, Acuna is playing like the budding superstar he's billed as..
The kid has 8 homers and 15 RBIs in the past 10 games. He now is 2nd on the team in OPS. His swing has relaxed and it looks as fast and fluid as they come.
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The ball just sounds different coming off his bat. He hits “screaming mimis”
It’s always difficult to live up to the hype, but this kid certainly has. It’s really unbelievable what he’s doing. A core of Acuña, Albies, Freeman, Newcomb, and Folty is pretty tough to beat. Not to mention Riley, Toussaint, Allard, Soroka, Wright, Anderson, and Pache knocking down the door in the minors. The Braves and their young talent are the envy of baseball.
Even his ground ball singles seem to always be over 100mph. And he seems to have mastered the much lauded
"launch angle".
I love the fact that he was moved to the lead-off spot. His hitting just took off after that change. And with the success with guys in the lower part of the batting order like Camargo and Swanson, it gives the power hitting Acuna numerous RBI opportunities.
It's definitely early in his career but he's definitely fun to watch. Future is very bright.
I'm wondering what it is about hitting leadoff that led to this offensive explosion? Or maybe it had nothing to do with it and he was just ready to get hot? Where is the advanced metric to explain that?
We're still thin at the plate. We got production from players early in the season who have already faded back into mediocrity. Long term starting pitching and several positions seem strong, but it's still a team in development.
Launch angle is a nerd too far in analysis of hitting.
It means nothing over a sample size large enough to evaluate statistically.
Acuna Matata! No worries!
Acuna is leading the ratio APHRB / UAFB (attractiveness of the women who get your homerun balls / unattractiveness of the day guys who get your foul balls ratio). Seriously, I’m old enough when I remember it was runs scored, SB, HR and batting average you used to measure players. Now there are 197 metrics used to track players. On Acuna, cool that he set the Braves mark for games with consecutive HRs and also leading off a game with HR (three days in a row). If I were the Marlins, I’d open up the game by walking him.
Some metrics make obvious sense, OPS being at the top, some like ''launch angle'' probably have value in projecting prospects and clearly do in training, but are completely incidental ( useless) in evaluating actual production.
Some lineup positions like 3rd are somewhat dependent on the next hitter to get pitches to hit. Leadoff seems more about comfort level, some thrive there while others shrink from it.
There’s a reason organizations are embracing fly balls!
Yea bc they keep building the parks smaller and smaller
https://www.fangraphs.com/library/pitching/batted-ball/
Scroll down and check out the stats for the league in 2014 on offensive numbers for grounders liners and fly balls!
Wrong place. Not every Dawg fan is a Braves fan. Please take this somewhere else.
Seems like he's gotten better at taking pitches that are out of the strike zone since he moved to lead off spot. Earlier in the season, he was swinging at too bad pitches, and then taking too many third strikes. He's locked in right now, not swinging at bad pitches, and not missing one's that are in his zone.
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Hey this is actually true I think @WCDawg! Launch angle doesn’t affect any outcome dependent stats like OBP OPS or WRC+. But yeah teams look at it for training, like saying hey you need to elevate your batted balls more let’s make a swing adjustment.
We agree on something!
Also the ball is juiced, some of yesterday's fly ball outs are now home runs.
Then you have PEDs, which will never be completely vanquished from MLB.The ''ha ha'' child doesn't understand the point anyway. My point is angle of trajectory is not a real stat anymore than when a player's front foot comes down is a stat. It can be a teaching tool, but when you have actual results from a player it's just background info.