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Let's All Freak Out About Jorge Soler, You Guys

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He's got a high babip because he always hits the ball 200 mph. Don't listen to Kyle. [expletive] THAT GUY.
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He's got a high babip because he always hits the ball 200 mph. Don't listen to Kyle. [expletive] THAT GUY.

 

I have no idea what Kyle thinks of BABIP; I thought that's just how it works.

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He's got a high babip because he always hits the ball 200 mph. Don't listen to Kyle. [expletive] THAT GUY.

 

And that's totally sustainable because history is littered with guys who had .410 career BABIPs, right? And because there's been multiple peer-reviewed studies showing that high velocity-off-the-bat measurements correlates with future BABIP?

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He's got a high babip because he always hits the ball 200 mph. Don't listen to Kyle. [expletive] THAT GUY.

 

And that's totally sustainable because history is littered with guys who had .410 career BABIPs, right? And because there's been multiple peer-reviewed studies showing that high velocity-off-the-bat measurements correlates with future BABIP?

Didn't read lol

 

YOU GUYS ALREADY HEARD ME. [expletive] THIS GUY!

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Originaly Soler thread is locked so I guess I'll post it in here

 

http://www.bleachernation.com/2015/07/20/jorge-soler-hits-it-harder-than-almost-everyone-including-yesterdays-laser-home-run/

 

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Soler also has the 6th highest average exit velocity on his ball strikes, at 93.42 mph, behind only some guys named Stanton, Pederson, Cespedes, Cabrera, and Braun, and just ahead of some guys named Trout and Goldschmidt.

 

So, then, it probably shouldn’t surprise you that, when Soler finally did hit a homer yesterday, it was a freaking rocket at 108 mph. You can watch the homer here (not currently embeddable), and you immediately notice that the ball gets out in a hurry despite going 425 feet. That’s because, according to the Home Run Tracker, the ball’s apex reached only 65 feet, some 30 feet lower than your typical homer.

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His second HR of his 2 HR game in St. Louis last year was one of the most impressive HR I have seen in person. I still think if he learns to elevate the ball on a regular basis he's going to be playing pepper with the LF bleachers. I'm still amazed at the raw power we have assembled. Soler needs to learn to hit breaking stuff though.
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Reminds me of Sammy. Once he learned to lay off sliders he became an absolute monster. There were almost no holes in his swing (maybe up and in, somewhat).

 

Soler isn't Sammy, but there's no reason he can't be a consistent .275 / .340 / .475 type guy if he learns to lay off the breaking pitch.

 

No holes in his swing? He averaged around 155-160 K's/year from 1998-2003

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Reminds me of Sammy. Once he learned to lay off sliders he became an absolute monster. There were almost no holes in his swing (maybe up and in, somewhat).

 

Soler isn't Sammy, but there's no reason he can't be a consistent .275 / .340 / .475 type guy if he learns to lay off the breaking pitch.

 

No holes in his swing? He averaged around 155-160 K's/year from 1998-2003

 

He was also walking 10-15% of the time.

 

You work deep counts, you're probably going to strike out a lot.

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the thing that vexes me most is how can soler simultaneously have an elite, almost superhuman ability to recognize pitch location while also refusing to leverage that ability in a significant amount of plate appearances

 

like, he'll go on a stretch like he did in the nlds where he rains merciful, life-giving dongs upon the bfib, and there's just basically no doubt in my mind that this is the guy's true talent level. but then he comes out against harvey and it's not particularly clear that he's even thinking about wanting to try and control the strike zone

 

i'm meatballing the hell out of this but i just don't know what to make of him, after being SUPER confident he was going to be of greater offensive value than bryant this year

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Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. 9-19, 3 HR, 3 doubles, 6 BB in playoffs.

 

He looked like a different man at the plate in the postseason, not just in terms of results, but approach. He looked much the same way in spring training, but for whatever reason seemed to abandon that disciplined approach for pretty much the entire regular season.

 

I'm still quite confident that he'll be a force in the mid-long term.

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