Hey, let's have some fun and take a peek at Willson Contreras' second half splits going in to today's game! .206 .297 .288 .585 HOOOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!
It's so, so sad that Bryant and Contreras back to back is such a nightmare combo. Woof. Either Schwarber or Happ would have been better to have in there over Bryant.
Matt Carpenter has such a bizarre month to month breakdown this season. May-August? An OPS of about 1.000. The first and last months of the season? An OPS of about .575.
It's not even necessarily either of those scenarios with him; to me, it seems like plenty of times where he simply doesn't try to fight off a pitch when a lot of other hitters would, like he just assumes, "oh, of course that's a ball."
You can picture the exact moment sofa gave up hope of ever winning again and completely changed his life Actually, you're not that far off; minus the questionable fashion choices (I mean, really; SHORTS??!), that basically was me 3 years (and about 175 pounds + a beard made of sadness) ago.
This is purely anecdotal, but it feels like he gets called out on close pitches way more than anyone else on the team. His patience should be helping him, but he's being screwed on marginal pitches