Javier Báez is now the worst qualified hitter in MLB with a 57 wRC+ | His 23.2 K% is the lowest of his career, but his 3.8 Barrel% is also the lowest of his career
August 30, 2023
Javier Báez is now the worst qualified hitter in MLB with a 57 wRC+ | His 23.2 K% is the lowest of his career, but his 3.8 Barrel% is also the lowest of his career
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Eat the money; cut him! Boo this man!
Yeah that makes sense
He just refuses to make adjustments unless his back is against the wall, and then those changes only last a week at most. He’s just gotta go. Eat the contract and get him out of here.
His microscopic 4.0% walk rate is his third lowest behind only 2016 (before his offensive breakout years) and 2020.
if hes going to be on the roster and playing next year, he better be seeing 500 sliders/sweepers every day of the offseason and figure out how to stop swinging at breaking balls 2′ outside the zone
The dude is either washed or he is so unmotivated to play baseball that it looks the same as being washed. Either way, the Tigers are stuck with this dude for four more years. If this continues next year & beyond, how can you give this dude regular playing time?
He needs to be our #1 priority in the off-season. Something needs to be hard reset in his approach or something. We can’t make a run next year if he doesn’t improve.
His last AB last night was a terrible chase on that slider.
Obviously it sucks with how much he’s being paid but it will be way more palatable if we have a strong lineup and can stick him down in the 8/9 hole. His defense still provides value and we don’t have any great shortstop options coming up.
People give him shit for his strikeouts, but he strikes out less than Greene, Rogers, Torkelson, etc.
His BABIP is 40 points below his career average. His WOBA is 19 points below his xWOBA. Not very lucky.
Relative to his better years, he is swinging a bit less, especially on strikes, and whiffing less. Imagine that!
3 Tigers in the bottom 18.
I’m at the point where I’m okay with eating the contract and cutting him, but not because he’s a bust – but because he *clearly doesn’t have to be*, but the dude just… you watch him play and it’s pretty clear at this point that he doesn’t want to be here, so let’s his misery – and ours – by letting him go.
Payroll low enough we could sit him. The problem that or cutting we need a good SS. Not sure we have that.
12 comments
Eat the money; cut him! Boo this man!
Yeah that makes sense
He just refuses to make adjustments unless his back is against the wall, and then those changes only last a week at most. He’s just gotta go. Eat the contract and get him out of here.
His microscopic 4.0% walk rate is his third lowest behind only 2016 (before his offensive breakout years) and 2020.
if hes going to be on the roster and playing next year, he better be seeing 500 sliders/sweepers every day of the offseason and figure out how to stop swinging at breaking balls 2′ outside the zone
The dude is either washed or he is so unmotivated to play baseball that it looks the same as being washed. Either way, the Tigers are stuck with this dude for four more years. If this continues next year & beyond, how can you give this dude regular playing time?
He needs to be our #1 priority in the off-season. Something needs to be hard reset in his approach or something. We can’t make a run next year if he doesn’t improve.
His last AB last night was a terrible chase on that slider.
Obviously it sucks with how much he’s being paid but it will be way more palatable if we have a strong lineup and can stick him down in the 8/9 hole. His defense still provides value and we don’t have any great shortstop options coming up.
People give him shit for his strikeouts, but he strikes out less than Greene, Rogers, Torkelson, etc.
His BABIP is 40 points below his career average. His WOBA is 19 points below his xWOBA. Not very lucky.
Relative to his better years, he is swinging a bit less, especially on strikes, and whiffing less. Imagine that!
3 Tigers in the bottom 18.
I’m at the point where I’m okay with eating the contract and cutting him, but not because he’s a bust – but because he *clearly doesn’t have to be*, but the dude just… you watch him play and it’s pretty clear at this point that he doesn’t want to be here, so let’s his misery – and ours – by letting him go.
Payroll low enough we could sit him. The problem that or cutting we need a good SS. Not sure we have that.