I think there's definitely a relationship. I also suspect there's a lot of short-term variance that correlates with hitting line drives, which we know are notoriously fickle. I want to see what Soler's velocity is when he's not hitting 31% line drives, which he won't for very long. So you're choosing to ignore the argument about an obvious causal factor? Huh? I agreed with it in the first sentence: "I think there's definitely a relationship." What I'm positing is that Soler's trouble making contact will eventually cause him to make less consistent quality contact, and that *may* cancel out some of his ability to create high-velocity contact. How do you statistically factor in that his mask is [expletive] him up?