It's anecdotally been the case for a while now, but the season-long numbers are stark, and bizarre. You want to get Andrew Benintendi out? Throw the ball right down the middle of the plate, thigh-high.
Want to essentially guarantee you get him out? Throw a fastball down the middle of the plate. He hits .037 on fastballs middle-middle. .037!
He has a .365 SLG on all pitches down the middle. That's Tucker Barnhart's SLG. Andrew Benintendi becomes Tucker Barnhart on anything right down the damn middle of the plate.
I guess my question, here, is: what the hell?
Want to essentially guarantee you get him out? Throw a fastball down the middle of the plate. He hits .037 on fastballs middle-middle. .037!
He has a .365 SLG on all pitches down the middle. That's Tucker Barnhart's SLG. Andrew Benintendi becomes Tucker Barnhart on anything right down the damn middle of the plate.
I guess my question, here, is: what the hell?
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