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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Blue Jays Steal Yunel Escobar

More encouraging is that as lousy as Escobar has been in 2010 for the Braves (and the only reason a player of his calibre was even available) is that his season appears to be an outlier in my opinion. His BB% has risen from 9.4% to 12.3%, his K% has stayed the same, he has more BBs (37) than K’s (31), his BABIP isn’t terribly low, but at .270 is 46 points below his career average. His batted ball profile looks nearly identical from year to year as he is hitting the same amount of groundballs (50%), line drives (18.4%) and fly balls (30.7%) but the big issue is the fly balls he is hitting are not leaving the ball park.

Jayszone93 Posted: July 17, 2010 at 04:21 AM | 1 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
Tags: blue jays, braves, olympics, summer leagues

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1. Greg (U)K Posted: July 17, 2010 at 04:11 PM (#3592027)

Didn't someone in one of the other 18 Escobar threads mention his infield pop up rate is ridiculously high this season?

If so, what bearing does that have on all of this? Is that a dangerous warning sign, or just noise?

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