Back from my MS Ride weekend. It went about as well as it could have. Almost perfect weather. The wind was at our backs most of the time. It was a reminder that I need to work on hill climbing. I...
The weird stat is that 8.8% of his hits have been infield hits. Last year it was 6.7%, which I thought was unsustainable.BR has him at a 0.7 WAR. FanGraphs at 0.6.May: .564 OPSHe isn’t hitting the ball as hard as last year. 23.7% hard-hit rate, 37.5 last year. His line drive rate is up a bit, 21.8% from 19.2.
Defensively? Last year he was near the top of the league in framing stats. This year, he’s 10th of 60And, as we all know, he’s slow. FanGraphs has him at -3.9 runs on the basepaths . That’s not going to improve. He’s been a bit below average in throwing out base stealers, 17% this year, 26%. Of course, the league average has dropped too, 22% this year and 25% last year.
Catching ERA is one of those stats involving many factors, but Jays' pitchers have a 3.77 ERA when Kirk is catching, 4.27 when Jansen catches . To me, his defense looks fine. Coming up to the majors, we thought he would be a bat-first catcher, but his defense has been better than I expected. Unfortunately, his bat hasn’t been as good as expected this year.
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