vote bkitches :lowscore: Over/under: Yasiel Puig's batting average By David Schoenfield | ESPN.com — 3 hours agoThrough his first 27 major league games, Yasiel Puig hit .443, a figure fueled by an unsustainable .513 batting average on balls in play. Once the bloops and tricklers stopped finding holes, his average regressed and he hit .272 the rest of the way.His final batting line read .319/.391/.534, still impressive for a player with only 40 games in Double-A. Will he hit .300 again in his sophomore season? I addressed some of Puig's strengths in this piece, pointing out that he showed more patience as his rookie season progressed. Control the strike zone and you get yourself out less often. He finished 2013 with a .383 BABIP -- tied for second-highest in the majors with Joe Mauer, behind Chris Johnson (minimum 300 plate appearances), so you would normally expect regression from a figure so high. Still, you have to factor in that with his speed Puig is going to get a lot of infield hits -- he had 17 last year. That's helps the old BABIP. So what do you think? The ZiPS projection system has him hitting .284. Others are at .290 and .292. Let's set the over/under at .290. (I'm taking the over.)__
I think Puig may take a step back this year and will be in the .270-.285. Just seems like the second year is always a little harder on guys as there is more of a book on them. Puig is a whole different animal though and I hope he proves me wrong.
I don't mean to brag, but I did have a doughnut with bacon on it for breakfast this morning. http://voodoodoughnut.com/doughnuts.php
Very. The one that opened here in Denver a couple weeks ago is in a part of town that is where all hipsters and what not live. So there has been a line out the door and down the street all hours of the day(When do hipsters ever work!?!). My group snuck out of a meeting at an odd hour to get in(only had to wait 15 minutes). I will say this, those were some damn good doughnuts.
I had one of those maple bacon donuts and the bacon tasted like those fake bacon bits. I was not impressed.
Mixing bacon and a donut just doesn't sound great. Then again, I've never been a part of the whole bacon obsession. Some people talk about putting nacho cheese on a donut. No thanks.
I'm guessing the sophomore slump rears it's ugly head as pitchers study him more and force him to make adjustments. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's gonna have a bad year, it's just his BA might suffer. The power and speed will still be there and be reflected in his SLG, and hopefully his patience holds out and his OBP will be up there as well.
This. I think he's right their for 25 HRs, RBI is tough because it looks he may do a good bit of leading-off and if he does, it's tough to see him driving in 75+ runs.
I'd say slightly under, he's gonna strikeout, not to say he won't have an All Star type year however.
