Comments on: Investigating José Abreu’s slump http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/07/18/investigating-jose-abreus-slump/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Charlie Clarke http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/07/18/investigating-jose-abreus-slump/#comment-11460 Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:07:46 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=14828#comment-11460 His performance against fastballs is definitely concerning. I looked at his performance against pitches outside of the zone (which happen to be a lot of breaking pitches) because he’s identified strike zone as an issue, and it can partly explain his weaker contact during the slump.

But giving a look at his performance against harder pitches, his whiff % remains pretty steady and his exit velocity isn’t down much from his career trends. If we see another month of him struggling against fastballs, I think there would definitely be a larger cause for concern and more things to look into. But so far, I’ve mainly viewed it through the lens of across-the-board struggling.

]]> By: DariusA64 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/07/18/investigating-jose-abreus-slump/#comment-11457 Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:21:01 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=14828#comment-11457 The tendency to chase low and away more certainly isn’t encouraging, but isn’t that recent performance against fastballs much more concerning (if there is a reason to be concerned)? The sample is larger and the baseline for good performance is higher. The fact that he has hit essentially the same against fourseams, and much worse against sinkers, compared to sliders is much more alarming from the fastball perspective – almost everyone has worse numbers against sliders.

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