Will he do any better? He is currently the offensive coordinator or some shit isn’t he? How’s that look. Terrible.How long until Mattingly is the manager? Atkins and Shapiro spent $250M on this team, they obviously believe in the roster.
I would argue he's probably more dangerous as i think Schneider is a minion that they moved up with in the org to be part of a collective brain trust and follow the front office's game plan and their understanding of analytics ( much like Charlie)Will he do any better? He is currently the offensive coordinator or some shit isn’t he? How’s that look. Terrible.
What’s Cito up to these days.![]()
Springer’s start is also a bit troublesome. His bat was just above league average last year and now it’s going to take a serious hot streak to get back to that level.
It's absolute insanity that he's still leading off, pure insanity.The babip is really unlucky, but a lot of the underlying stuff kind of suggests he's cooked. Average EV down, barrel% down to 6.6%. Line drive rate has tanked, ground ball rate way up. Peak Springer was pulling the ball 48% of the time with an avg exit velo of 88-89mph. 34 yr old Springer isn't getting around on the ball nearly as much (34%) and the avg exit velo is 87mph. Unless this is injury related in some way, or there's a massive time adjustment he just hasn't made (not uncommon for mid 30's sluggers to struggle figuring out how to time pitchers when their bat slows down a bit...some never figure it out though).
The really concerning bit though is that most of those numbers slid year over year for 2-3 years now. I don't think he's this cooked, but it's starting to look like league average is the best we should expect, even if this is just a slump.