Ideally Tweedle Dumb (Joc) and Tweedle Dumber (Puig) should be hitting 5-6. But why fuck with what's working?
Yeah it's realistic to be aggressive and not strikeout. When Godley is shutting us out as per his usual performance against us and he has 80 pitches after 4 you may re-think the pitch taking. Easy to go the other way as well.
Maeda is well worth his contract and will continue to provide great value over the course of it. But he better stay the hell away from the posstseason.
Idk how it plays out in reality, but their lineup and their numbers look better than anyone else I've seen this year, including us. Holy shit...I had no idea. One after another.
Some do. If you hit lots of HR strike out all you want. If you high OBP strike out all you want. If you can hit over .300 but are mainly a ground ball/speed guy strike out all you want. If you big fat and slow strike out all you want. If the opposing infield is excellent defensively strike out all you want. These are unwritten rules.
When you're OPSing .800+ from CF at league minimum, I'm pretty happy. Even so, I'm not buying Joc stock going forward. He's too streaky, can't settle on a set-up or swing, and his defense no longer grades well. He and Grandal are redundant offensively. Appreciate the HR off Max in the NLDS last year, but I would rather see Ryu at the plate with the game on the line. Perhaps this is just my own problem though. Very difficult guy for me to watch.
He had a wRC+ over 120 last season and even started to hit lefties towards the end of last season. I feel like he could be a 4-5 win player if he would just pick a damn batting stance/swing and stick with it. I thought he turned the corner last year and would come back as a .260/.360/.495 guy. But he's real sloppy.
