Has the Yankees unearthed the main Lemahieu DJ?
While the Real Lemahieu is reviewing the duration of the boxes a rehabilitation task, the Yankees have received the same type of production units beaten to all fields, few strikeouts and the second singles in baseball and game of an Ullkik source.
Paul Goldschmidt, who led the National League in homers in 2013 and who crushed 35 homers as recently as 2022, could be reinventing himself.
Emphasis on power because the sample size is still small enough to qualify as an error in a long race, and perhaps the trends begin to change as the season progresses.
But for approximately one month of play, the numbers themselves, the highest line driving rate in baseball and using the opposite field, since it had never been the image of a “professional batter”, such as the coach of blows James Rowson, adjusting.
“It is a guy who evolves as a batter,” Rowson said before having a rare night (0-O 5) in the opening of the Yankees series 4-2 against the tiles in the Bronx on Friday. “It is a guy who takes what the game gives. And I think what looks at the quality of his turn to the turn to put a good swing in a good release.”
According to Goldschmidt himself, the approach has not changed.
“I just try to hit the ball and just a child or let what to do,” Goldschmidt said. “But yes, it is a bit different, in terms of results, but I” really tried to do something different. “
Upon entering the game, Goldschmidt had an average bat of .383 that only followed Aaron Judge in MLB. He was the first in the largest in multi -hits games (12). Before Friday 0-FER that reduced its average to a .364 still impressive, had a streak of eight games of eight games that consisted of 12 single, two doubles and zero triples or home runs.
This is not the usual statistics line of a first -base man who entered this season with 362 homers, but enters Saturday with only 333.
But yes, the Yankees would absolutely accept this average elite compensation for power.
“I think if he can do it continuously during the course of the year, we really don’t know what that could be [in terms of end-of-year numbers]. It could be something special, “said Rowson.” It is not normal for him, but it is something that if he continues to do it, the numbers will appear for him. “
The most tangible change for Goldschmidt implies its aggressiveness. A batter who has a reputation well won by the pitchers who work after having seen a 3.73 launched race per plate, below a race brand or 4.16.
He has seen Ferwer launches because he has previously attacked in the counts, balanced in a first launch in 34.3 percent of the spin shifts after counting a rate of 24.7 percent in the first step in his first 14 seasons.
Goldschmidt went to change and theorized that it was a reflection of how the pitchers have attacked him instead of how he has attacked the pitchers: “It seems that I have many blows to hit,” he said.
I was not seeing a significantly different strike rate, but it has a bone that sees more errors of errors than usual. Its percentage of 9.4 “meatballs”, which is what it seems, throws in the middle of the plate, was the highest of his career.
The first base hit the cleaning, he squeezed between Ben Rice and Cody Bellinger on Friday, but has generally hit Beind Judge. Maybe having a corridor at the base in front of him, so he has forced the pitchers to enter more mistakes.
“I definitely think the pitchers want to get ahead,” Goldschmidt said. “But I haven’t really thought about it. Just trying to be ready every time he put in the box.”
It has produced as much offense as the Yankees could and viewed, while production itself is far from what bombers could have imagined.
Rowson said he has heard for years about the professional approach that Goldschmidt takes on the dish, and even if the results have been different, the quality of the bat turn has remained the same.
“The slug, all those things, I think it is at a point where [he knows] Do not hit home runs; The pitchers release homers, “Rowson said.” He will hit some homers. But I think he is in a great place of not trying to do too much. “
