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So Willson's basically gonna be right-handed Schwarber + batting avg, minus a little power, and he can actually catch. That's pretty neat.
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Warning track power - that was Almora driving a ball

This park is dumb

 

almora is dumb

 

horsefeathers off horsefeathers!

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I was told he was broken.

 

he probably still is

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=4949&position=OF&type=&gds=2016-06-01&gde=2016-06-21&season=

 

but maybe he's not

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/fantasy-baseball/post/_/id/12420/first-pitch-signs-of-promise-for-giancarlo-stanton

 

Giancarlo Stanton hit a home run on Monday.

 

That this -- something Stanton did a National League-leading 37 times in 2014 (three off the major league lead), as well as in a major league-leading 8.5 percent of his trips to the plate in 2015 (that rank among players with at least 300 PAs) -- qualifies as news, underscores how poorly Stanton had been playing of late. The home run was his first since May 24, a span of 15 homerless games and 62 homerless PAs in between, and you might remember that game as the one immediately preceding a span of seven Miami Marlins games Stanton subsequently missed with right side soreness.

 

It gave Stanton an encouraging weekend wrap-around series against the Colorado Rockies (8-for-16 with one walk and three strikeouts), and it could represent the first steps toward restoring his stock as one of the game’s premier power hitters. Forgive the small sample, but during those four games, Stanton swung and missed only nine times (resulting in a 39 percent miss rate on swings), put the ball into play 13 times (57 percent in-play rate) and chased only seven pitches outside the strike zone (26 percent chase rate); he missed on 44 percent of his swings, had a 26 percent in-play rate and chased 33 percent of pitches outside the strike zone during a miserable 29-game stretch that preceded it, during which he batted .118/.211/.216.

 

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