Mike Petriello

And basically what I came to to wildly oversimplify this is he's Freddie Freeman if Freddie Freeman just made a lot worse, less contact.

And what I mean by that is he's got a very similar kind of swing path.

He's not crushing home runs.

He hits the ball over the infielders, but not too deep to get to the outfielders.

And I think it's a really indefensible way to play baseball.

And I don't mean indefensible way.

point of view and we can actually characterize that too like you can see which batters uh put fielders in the most difficult position to make plays on the balls and if you look at the top five leaderboard brandon marsh was fourth and the guys ahead of him are like switch hitting speed demons you know ellie de la cruz was first and uh acuna i know he's not a switch hitter of a second and something like that and he just hits them all in a way where you cannot really

effectively position guys because you're not going to play your center fielder 200 feet behind, you know, past home plate.

It's just not going to work.

And he's got this very repeatable swing path, and he does it over and over.

The only thing that's keeping him from being a true superstar is he strikes out 25% of the time.

That's gone up and down a little bit.

You know, Freddie Freeman strikes out half as much.

That, to me, is the big key difference.

And it's funny to say, hey, this is the one little thing that's keeping him from being a Hall of Famer, but it's kind of true.

He's a pretty good outfielder.

Gets on base a lot.

Just the strikeouts are what's keeping him back.

I just think that's really cool to say, hey, here's a guy you don't think about enough.

And if you do think about him, it's probably because of his giant wet beard all the time.