Is Fernando Tatis Jr. Still a Superstar? His 2025 Season EXPOSES Major Flaws

Is Fernando Tatis Jr. Still a Superstar? His 2025 Season EXPOSES Major Flaws

On today’s show, he’s one of the most popular players in Major League Baseball. He is the heart of the San Diego Padres’s, Fernando Tatis Jr. reviewing his season, the good, the bad, the in between, where we’re going forward. Is he a superstar anymore? All these questions and more. Let’s get into it. [Music] You are Locked on Padres’s, your daily San Diego Padres’s podcast. part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another edition of Lockdown Podies Podcast, which is part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day for Thursday, October 9th. Realizing now, I might have said for yesterday, October 9th, but whatever. Thursday, October 9th. I as always am your host with sometimes clearly not always the most, Javier Reyes. and I’ve recovered this team for literally six years now. Not just for this podcast, but various other outlets, including just baseball.com, chief among them. Today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code locked on MLB for $20 off your first purchase. Go check that out. And today’s episode, today’s episode, we are doing our first of what will be many player reviews for the offseason, the 2025 season review for Fernando Tatis Jr. Should be a lot of fun. and we’re going to talk about the good, the bad, give my conclusion about him overall as a player. The big question I think uh that’s on everybody’s mind and he is the most famous player. So, he is rightfully the player that we’re going to start this series off with. And I’m going to start off the show by saying this. We must answer a comment, right? And a lot of these comments have been floating out for a while now of a variation of this at Chase Leo says, “Tatis is not a star. What planet are you on?” A lot of the comments saying, “Yep, Tatis and Machado are nothing without roids. Yeah, he’s a bum.” blah blah blah blah blah. So, this is the thing. Is Tatis not a star, right? Is he Yasel Pig? Is he um I I I can’t think of a better one right now. Like players who just have more attention than they have onfield value, right? They’re just a little bit more famous than they are, right? Trevor Bower, another example. Infamous, right? In that case, right? So, let’s get into it. Let’s first start talking about Tatis when it comes to the good. This year, Ferno Tatis Jr., He slashed 268 with a 368 on base, a 446 slugging. Had a WRC plus of 131. Remember WRC plus 100 is average. 131 would make him 31% at better than your league average kind of hitter, which is very, very good. That’s all-star level. And finished with 6.1 wins above replacement. So, let me tell you overall this year, Fernando Tatis Jr. was an an allaround very good player. If you just look at the the basic numbers, right, in terms of wins above replacement, Fernit Tatis Jr. finished 10th this year behind only Francisco Lindor, José Ramirez, Corbin Carroll, Trey Turner, Geraldo Purdomo, Show Otani, Bobby Wood Jr., Cow Rally, and Aaron Judge. That’s pretty dang good company. So immediately my response to people saying he’s not a star. Well, he is kind of in that way. The difference is, which we’re going to get to in the second segment, what happened with his batting, right? what happened in that regard. But before we get into that, there was so many positives, right? Firstly, this year, the walk rate, right? That is probably one of the best things that happened to him when it comes to offense uh in his season, right? A 12.9% walk rate, by far the highest of his career and much higher than his previous two seasons when we started seeing him strike out a little bit less, but at the cost of the fact that he wasn’t walking more. So, he he kind of decreased in that area. So, we’re wondering, is he too impatient? Is this a bad development? Well, that’s higher. 7.3% last year and 8.3% in 2023. So that was a nice positive development for him. Um, and this is also a pretty huge development in my opinion because it shows if Tatis isn’t the Ken Griffy Jr. masher that we expected and saw early in his career, a 150 WRC plus each of his first three seasons, right? 42 home runs in 2021, 22 home runs in 84 games in 2019, 17 in 59 games in 2020, right? And by the way, like that’s not necessarily like what’s the word? Like he wasn’t necessarily better those years, by the way. But in terms of that overall, the plate discipline that we saw this year is a good sign that if he is not the Ken Griffy Jr. masher, you’ll always be able to kind of rely on, well, he’s got a good eye at the plate. He’s going to put put together productive at bats. He’s going to get on base, and that matters. We love on base, right? Shout out Billy Bead. We love Buddy Ball and we love getting on base. The next positive is that defense. He was incredible this year and that’s why he had such a high finish in his Winsburg replacement or at least a big part of it. Yes, he only had 25 home runs, but he also swiped 32 bags and because of the defense that contributed to why he had such an effective year in terms of all qualified outfielders this year in terms of defensive runs saved and outs above average. Ferno Tatis Jr. ranked really, really high. For those who don’t know, those are really good advanced stats that do a better job than just fielding percentage and errors, right? Than telling you what the best defenders are. If you want to leave a comment asking why, we can answer that in another episode, right? But in terms of defensive run saves, Fernando Tatis Jr. was fifth behind only Wyatt Langford of the Texas Rangers, Adulus Garcia of the Texas Rangers as well, Cadane Raphael of the Red Sox, and Steven Quan of the Cleveland Guardians in that category amongst all outfielders. and then outs above average which is arguably even more important. Fernitis Jr. finished 10th among all players tied with um Michael Harris um the second Wyatt Langford, Corbin Carroll, Andy Pah, Julia Rodriguez, Kyle Isabel, Jacob Young, Victor Scott, Pico Armstrong, and Kadane Raphael are the only players that finished higher. I.e. Tatis is a very good defender. And if you limit this, by the way, to not just outfield, but just right field, Tatis is basically one of the best defensive players at his position in Major League Baseball. And he’s done this before, too. So, we can say probably not a fluke. Last year, when his with his advanced analytics and the defense, probably more of a fluke, getting to the ball a little bit weird, didn’t have as many opportunities. This year, he was second and outs above average among all right fielders with only Corbin Carroll finishing better. And Corbin Carroll, Tatis, had more defensive runs saved. And I think that showed his arm, those jumping catches that he made. How many home runs did we see him get robbed this year? Right. I saw him do it in person in that Mets game that Elias Diaz had the walk-off in. Right. He robbed potentially like a what was it? Um a home run from Mark Ventos. Incredible. Incredible stuff from the boy. He was amazing. He was amazing. He has the speed. He is an allound very good player in that respect, right? And also more positives. We’re not done yet. He still crushes fast balls. So for everybody wondering sometimes why they put him lead off, one of the reasons is because he cut crushes fast balls, which is what pitchers tend to throw more of because they don’t want to put a guy who’s as fast as Tatis on the basis to start off a game. So he’s seeing a lot of fast balls and he’s still killing it this year. Hitting .3 331 against them and slugging 529, right? That is still very good. Lots of goods for Tatis, man. He still crushes fast balls. And also he stayed really healthy. This was the most games he’s ever played in a season his whole career. And by the way, if you’re wondering, still very good clutch stats in terms of high leverage situations this year, right? Which is not scoring position, but it just means like the big game on the line gamechanging moments, right? Which isn’t as many times as runners in scoring position, but still he finished 18th in WRC plus 183 in high leverage situations this year. There’s some crazy ones and that’s technically tends to be a spot in which players it vascalates yeartoear the high leverage numbers and whatnot but he was still very very clutch this year right and that is something that he deserves a lot of credit for. So the war the fact that he played in more games than ever the fact that he was an electric defender the fact that he was healthier than ever like all these different things round out to be the 10th best position player in Major League Baseball potentially and that absolutely constitutes a star. However, if you want to get into semantics, is he no longer a superstar? That, my friends, is a lot more complicated of a question to answer. But before we attempt to answer it, guys, let me just take a second to talk to you about one of our sponsors, and that is our friends over at RUG. Because here’s the thing. Here’s the thing. Here’s the thing, guys. You’ve probably heard of Viagra or Seialis. Maybe you’ve even tried them. 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And also subscribe wherever you want and leave your comments on whatever I’m saying in the comments section of this video and I’ll try to get back to you especially for the Monday mailbag. Although I’ll be answering questions all the time frankly because it’s the offseason so it’ll be part of the plans. Why not? But as I said before the break the big question is not whether or not he’s a star player. Like again 10th and wins above replacement guys. He is an all-around player, but we got to talk about if he’s a superstar player. And that leads into the bad of Fernando Tatis Jr.’s season, which there was also plenty of to discuss, right? First of all, the playoffs. I know, right? He was great in the regular season and high leverage. And by the way, he’s been awesome throughout his career. Remember, prior to this offseason, I’m sorry, prior to this playoff season, Fernando Tatis Jr. had the highest OPS in the history of Major League Baseball in the postseason. This guy is rocking a 1500 OPS. So, it was his first bad one. It happens. It’s not an indictment on him as a player, especially because he had been good before. We get on Manny Machado because he’s only basically had one postseason where he was just better than an average player, right? So, that’s that’s why we get on him, not Tatis. But still, he had a bad playoffs, right? And you got to talk about that. The next thing, and dare I say the most important thing, is that the slugging was completely absent this year. Yes, 25 home runs is nothing to laugh at, nothing to sneeze at, but it’s also because he played a lot of games this year, right? In terms of his OPS by month, and more importantly, his slugging. He looked like an MVP. The first month of the year, he had seven home runs. He slashed 323 with a 394 on base and a 591 slugging. 986 OPS. Then what happened? His slugging percentage by month in May 369. In June, 337. In July, 473. It looks like he was back. then 355 in August and then again looked like he was back 549 in September. We don’t really know what happened. And considering that his main things, right, the main numbers when you go to baseball savant in expected batting average in hard hit rate, he’s in the 93rd percentile. In average exit velocity, he’s in the 95th percentile. But he was 66 percentile in barrel rate, which isn’t bad, but it shows you he was unable to lift the ball for extra bases more than usual. And that raises a lot of questions because these past couple years, last year we got to say, you know what, he got banged up and every time it looked like he was rolling, he he, you know, he landed back on the injured list, injured re injured list, injury reserved list, whatever it’s called, right? But we at least got to see he went nuts in the postseason, right? So clearly that power, that griffy ability was there, but he did not deliver this year, right? And one thing that I did see this year that was a little bit concerning and may show off his weaknesses is his ability to hit stuff on the top of the zone. We talked about this a lot this year, but I just want to illustrate it for people who are watching on video. In the top middle of the strike zone, top left and top right is what I’m aiming at here. Top middle, he was okay. But top left, he had a 33% whiff rate and top right a 42% whiff rate. Combine that with the fact that he also whiffed on stuff low and away and low and inside outside the zone, you basically had a player that just couldn’t always put it together and it looked like he was a guy who pitchers knew how to attack more than previous years, right? It looked like they were like, “All right, throw it up here, especially if you’re a lefty, and he’s not going to be able to reach out. He’s not going to be able to adjust in time with his stance or whatever it is to get to the ball and hit it for power.” Right? That’s what we saw this year. he was whiffing at those pitches basically all season long and was unable to produce in that respect. Right? So that was a concerning thing. The other concerning thing which also plays into these whiffs on top of the zone is that he couldn’t hit off speed pitches or breaking pitches this year and this was the first year in which that that was kind of a problem. Right? 2023 he struggled a little bit with off speed pitches. He hit 220 but his expected number is two 259 expected batting average. But for the most part, this is kind of like, dang, you really struggled there. Is it possible that this was a sign of something greater? He hit 213 against breaking pitches and 138. That’s the big number against off speed pitches. He could not adjust to that stuff. Killed the fast ball still, but he could not adjust to that. So, not great, right? You don’t like to see that from the guy who’s your leadoff hitter just struggling a lot. and it looked like a player that batters knew how to attack when it came down to it, right? Also, he had the lowest pulled air ball rate of his career and it’s gone down every year since 2021, right? Specifically, 22.2% which was great, right, in 2021. That’s amazing. Then 15.1, 14.5, and then 12% this year. And he also saw an increase in his ground ball percentage getting to 49%. Now, here’s the thing with the pulled air percentage. Let me just let you guys know, most of the time that’s a good thing is if you’re pulling the ball, which most hitters are going to do, you’re going to that’s just how batting works. If you can put it into the air, that usually is a good sign that you’re going to end up hitting a lot of home runs. Putting the ball in the air more, especially when you’re hitting it hard, is usually a sign of more home runs do. And he didn’t do that this year, right? And it’s gone down every year, which is why it is unfortunately a little bit justified to say, hey, maybe he’s not a superstar player anymore. Maybe maybe maybe it’s possible that the peeds is something that we can’t easily dismiss anymore. In my opinion, I’ve always brought up that there are plenty of other players who have declined after an amazing start to their career. Look at Michael Harris, right? Look at uh Alec Manoa, right? That does not mean that all of a sudden we just have to assume that it was steroids that kept them up there. Hey, if you want to bring up Jerks and Proofar, oh well Jerksen Proofar, that’s why he had such a great year. Maybe. Maybe that’s why he had such an extra extra great year. But Jerxson profile, by the way, this year 122 WRC plus in the 80 games he played like almost one and a half wins above replacement and he also hit 14 home runs. He had his moments like as a batter he was still good this year and a player that the Padres’s might desperately miss. So all of that combined basically to summarize is just the guy lost the power and it looked like a player that is just not the Griffy guy that we thought he was going to be and he was really inconsistent with the power. He was always walking, which was great. But it would be unfair for me not to bring up heading into this year, we talked about the peed thing, a 100% drop in OPS since the peed suspension. And we said this is kind of a make or break year in terms of dispelling all those concerns. We saw him perform in the playoffs. We saw him perform um at times this year, especially at the beginning of the year. Is this a player who’s just very very good and absolutely worth his contract or is he a generational player after this year? You kind of have to say he’s not that generational player. And that’s okay to a degree. That’s okay. But it is disappointing. And it is especially disappointing considering that this Padres’s team does not have a lot of slug. Even if Jackson Merrell’s great next year, which I think he will be, he’s not necessarily a guy who’s going to hit 30 home runs. He might just stumble into it one year, but that’s not what you’re looking for. you’re looking for like 19 20 home runs from Jackson Merrell and then a bunch of extra base hits and great defense and great speed, all that sort of stuff, right? But when it comes to power in that regard, that’s something that the Padres were sorely missing and you saw it in the playoffs. It’s just a team that like when you need the big hit, you can’t rely on that. You’re playing small ball. And it’s a an approach that I do not agree with. I feel like we’ve seen, don’t get me wrong, you don’t want to go too powerheavy and just always rely on pull stuff like the Yankees do with the short porch in Yankee Stadium, but unfortunately the naysayers did win a little bit with Fernit and Tatis Jr. this year, but it is also true that you have to bring up that, you know, with his hard hit stuff, can he turn it around? I’m not entirely sure. It’s a really big question, but in my opinion, not one that is going to matter as much for the Padres’s as a whole, but for him, it absolutely does. But man, that power being absent was rough. There were times, guys, throughout this year where he only had a couple home runs. In the month of August, he had one. In June and July, he had two, right? That’s really bad. Then he had seven in September. So, I don’t know what happened. 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But remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcast from. Leave any comments in the comment description on section on YouTube. Uh, and I’ll try to get back to you. But concluding thoughts on Fernando Tatis Jr. for his season of 2025, here’s what I’ll say. The numbers are still there power-wise, right? The numbers are still there. The hard hit rate’s there. The expected batting average is there, right? His expected batting average was actually 283. His expected slug was 506. His weighted on base was great. This was the third year in a row in which his weighted on base was behind and trailed behind his expected weighted on base, right? By a significant margin, too. Not just by like three points, by like 30 points. The numbers are there. And I could see a world in which Tatis spends the offseason the same way he did this year with the wider stance, changing his stance and all that. It’s possible an offseason of adjusting to the potential adjustments that pitchers made. Right? We talked about this in the second segment. Maybe pitchers were figuring out a certain way to go about attacking him on top of the zone and with off speed pitches that started to work, right? Maybe they have more tape on him. They have more Gabe Phelp, whatever you want to call it. There’s also going to be plenty of folks in his corner, not just from the team, but hey, his dad Fernando Tatis Junior senior, right? I think that the 40 plus home run guy could still be in there somewhere. And this is going to come off as hate, and it is hate. It absolutely is. But as I illustrated earlier with his numbers against off speed pitches, with the strike zone stuff, his walk rate spiked very dramatically with runners in scoring position. And on in total this year it jumped to 20% his walk rate with runners in scoring position and over the last three months of the season it jumped to 28%. So here’s what I’m saying. Is it possible with how much we saw Fernit Jr. this year? Is it possible again possible that maybe he saw more breaking pitches this year he also saw more off speed pitches? a jump by 3% in the offseason pitches, a jump by 2% in the breaking pitches. Is it possible, I repeat, possible that Luis Arise being behind him in the order made it that with all of his struggles with the fact that they might have figured out on top of the zone with all of that he just they would never give him stuff to hit, right? Is it possible that with the walk rate he was like, I’m not getting anything to hit because Arise is behind me and I crush fast balls and maybe they’re not giving me fast balls. There was a lot of times this year when you saw low and away, maybe on top of the zone, right? You saw that a lot because maybe they just weren’t afraid of the rest of this lineup, especially Luis Arise. I do not think that that is an entirely coincidence. So, could a new number two hitter help? Giving Tatis a little bit because if you walk him, it’s like, oh god, we might have to face Ryan O’Harn. He could put the ball in the seats. He could also draw a walk very easily. It’s not an easy at bat with a player like an Arise who has a really poor approach, right? We This is what we’ve talked about like basically all year. Is it possible there? It’s also possible that hey, his home run fly ball rate was down. For those who don’t know, that’s one of the like initial stats you can look at that if you put the ball in the air a lot that maybe if a lot of them didn’t leave the park, they tend to leave the park when you go year to year. That’s just something that can happen, right? It’s a little bit more bad ball luck. It’s possible. It’s possible. Um it’s possible. But I will say that with the weighted on base thing that I brought up earlier, the third year in a row, you’ve you’re allegedly your expected stats were better than your regular stats. That tells me there’s something a little bit deeper going on here with Tatis’s played approach not pulling the ball as much as he should be. It just makes me wonder. It makes me wonder. But for all these reasons I illustrated, I just I think it’s possible that maybe he just has a year where he hits 40. But I do think we need to really stop thinking that that’s just what he is regularly or could be regularly. Again, it might just happen one year. There are players that have 35 plus home run seasons that lucked into it or just had a good season, right? But that’s not their overall profile, right? I can’t think of one off the top of my head right now. Heck, maybe profile last year. But I just think that when you combine the defense with the base running with his ability to draw walks, what you have here is a six- win player. And a six- win player is a is a is an all-star and a fringe fringe fringe fringe fringe. Remember that we have a demigod in the National League. So that’s not that’s not a Tatis, right? A fringe MVP quality player. I still think that’s what we get. But without the offense being there, it’s possible that like we saw in 2024 where the defense he didn’t make maybe as many crazy jumping catches, as many great routes to the ball, throw out as many runners, all that stuff, that maybe he doesn’t add as much defensively. He’s it looks like he’s a good player in that regard, but it’s possible those numbers go down a little bit. But I will say again, I will say it has to be mentioned with the contract, right? Fantastic Jr. is under contract for a long time, right? And I mean a long time. I’m actually looking at right now. What was it again? I always forget like how long he’s under contract because it’s been so long. He’s under contract until 2035. If Fernando Tatis Jr. is a five six win player who gets you a lot of walks, he can get you 25 home runs, play really great defense, have some speed, all that stuff, that’s worth the contract they gave him, right? But we were hoping that we got a steal with that contract. And in my opinion, this isn’t as much of a steal. This is just a really good player, you know what I mean? This is an all-star caliber player. Probably could have been the starting all-star player, but I don’t know if he’s quite an MVP guy. I do not think he’s Griffy Jr. anymore or at least for the time being, we cannot treat him as such. And it’s unfortunate because I love Tatis and I think that Tatis is sometimes getting a bad rap, right? I I really do. I think sometimes guys people look at him and say, “Wow, the slug is totally gone, so he must be bad.” Remember, for casual fans, defense isn’t something that you can always see, right? You would think that after this year with all the whole bread robberies, maybe people could see that. And I grant you that maybe a lot of the naysayers are just Dodgers fans who don’t watch the team. They just like to hate on the team. I I’m I’m almost at a loss for words because I just kind of think that it’s a little sad to see what’s happened to Tatis, but at the same time, I still think that a star player, a six- win player, is still really good and worth the money. Um, and there’s still the potential that he figures things out. There’s also players that go through rough patches who figure it out the next year. 25 home runs and 32 steals, 260, 360 on base, great defense, and a guy that we’ve still seen can be really clutch. He wasn’t in the postseason this year, but he’s been clutch in the postseason in the past. And in high leverage situations, he’s the he was the 18th best in high leverage situations among all position players in the big big big moments. I still think this is a guy who rises to the occasion, but the playoffs did also make me wonder, did pitchers say, “Well, we know how to attack this guy now, so this is what we’re going to do, and the walk won’t kill us because they’re they have a rise second.” And it’s for that arise reason. It’s for the reason of, you know, the the the slug, the fact that I still love that his baseball spot is bleeding red, that I still believe in the guy. But all in all, not a disappointing year for Tatis, but it is a year that changed our perception of him, a perception changing year for Fernando Tatis Jr. is the TLDDR TLDDL in this case that I would say for Fernando Tatis Jr. And lastly, if you guys are worried about this, like the Padres’s are screwed if he can’t be the Griffy anymore. He is not the problem with the Padres’s. There are other guys who have less wins replacement. Kyle Schwarber, Kyle Schwarber, he’s not a two-way player, but he hit a lot of home runs. you can find guys or you have to hope that the bodies find guys that are flawed players that could just hit for power and cover that aspect of the team building because if Tatis can’t do it, he’s doing so much else that it’s it’s wrong to get mad at him, right? It’s like getting mad at Joe Burrow because the rest of the team is bad. Like actually, you know what would help Joe Burrow and the Bengals? Better defensive players, a better O line, right? That’s how I feel about Tatis, if that makes any sense. But with that all being said everybody, that about does it for today’s edition of the Locked Up Padre’s podcast. The only pod that may be better than the pot juries themselves. Remember, subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcast from. Follow myself on TwitterX and Blue Sky Javapo. J- Avi II P- N O if you’d like when I finally get back active on there. 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Fernando Tatis Jr.’s 2025 season: Superstar or just very good? The San Diego Padres’ $340 million man faces scrutiny after a power decline.

Javier Reyes breaks down Tatis’s performance, highlighting his improved walk rate and stellar defense in right field. But questions linger about his diminished slugging and struggles against breaking pitches. Is Tatis still worth his massive contract? The analysis covers his .268/.368/.446 slash line, excellent WAR total, and some of the other small things he doesn’t get credit for. Go Padres.

0:00 Intro: The 2025 Fernando Tatis Jr. season review
5:05 Defensive excellence
10:09 Where’d the power go?
15:17 Potential impact of PED suspension
20:51 Possible reasons for Tatis’ offensive struggles
25:29 Is Tatis still worth his contract?

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