A little more on Duran re Worchester and power.
At Home: .286/.375/.735, 6 HRs, 56 PA
Away: .222/.349/.417, 2 HRs, 43 PA.
Obviously hitting for way more power at home but he has close to a .200 ISO on the road which is still pretty solid and would easily be a career high.
Vs RHP: .234/.347/.563 in 75 PA, 10bb/18k, 6 HR.
Vs LHP: .333/.417/.714 in 24 PA, 2bb/7k, 2 HR.
SSS, but it looks like he's hitting for power from both sides as well.
Another thing I found interesting: He somehow only has 7 PA against pitchers younger than he is... which lead me to find out
the average age of a AAA player is older than the average age of a MLB player. The average AAA player is 28.2 years old. The average MLB player is 27.2 years old. I'm surprised I didn't know this since I'm kind of a minor league junkie. I'm guessing the average age of A and AA players goes up roughly a year this season too, due to covid.
He's hitting .000/.143/.000 in those 7 PA, 1bb/3k.
vs older: .278/.380/.646 in 92 PA, 11bb/22k.
His career walk rate going into the season was 7.0%. This season it is currently at 12.1%. Sometimes an increase in power leads to more walks, so while I doubt he maintains that rate, I'm guessing it will be considerably higher than his career rate. He's also striking out more at 25.3%. His career rate was exactly 20.0% going into the season.
Anyway, back to Bobby Dalbec. Including last night, over his last 13 games: .116/.156/.209, 2bb/21k in 45 PA. 5 hits. He has far too many 0/10+ stretches this season, and a few 0/20+ stretches. You also aren't going to be very successful striking out 46.7% of the time. Also, last year he had 10bb in 92 PA. This year he has 10 bb in 178 PA, essentially cutting his walk rate in half in the early going. On the bright side, his K % for the season is 36.5%, which is better than the 42.4% last year.
For his career, Bobby is now at .215/.281/.441 in 270 PA with 14 HR, 20bb/102k on a .302 BAbip. 38.5% K rate, 7.4% BB rate. Looking at his minor league track record, that seems about right in line with what one would expect from
Bobby Dalbec. Most of his real success in the minors was due to being older than his competition. Less so in Portland but 24 isn't a spring chicken for AA either. Stating the obvious, but he'll need to either walk more or hit closer to .245-.250 to have any real value. Hitting .215 with a below average BB% rate isn't going to get it done at 1b. I guess the other solution would be to have an ISO close to .300.