I haven't looked at his groundball rate this year, but historically he hits very few groundballs and thus doesn't often ground into double plays. Yeah, just checked and only Ryan Ludwick and Khalil Greene have hit groundballs less often than Soriano this year. Ludwick is too busy emerging as the greatest player of all time to do silly things like hit ground balls.
Why am I not surprised that the Cardinals score 10 in their first game without Pujols and we're getting shut down without Soriano? I know, Tim Hudson is better than Cueto, Braves better than Reds, sample size, blah blah. I know I'm being irrational.
Now I know how everyone else feels when I'm still doing the "XXX just homered" game three innings after everyone else is tired of it. Sit on it. :wink: