Did Edouard Julien Sell Out Too Much for Power?

[Fatbat]

Apologies for the duplicate post. Julien is so focused on improving that no one should worry too much about his game. He will be just fine as the season moves along.  He is rockin it tonight so everyone…. Just relax and enjoy the show. 

[jkcarew]

I don’t really think he’s changed his approach at all. 

I don’t think it’s anything more than teams game-planning him and making adjustments to how they pitch him. And he will be forced to figure things out. I’m sure he’s going to have to make some changes…but, I doubt that it’ll be a drastic change in approach.

We’ll see.

[JD-TWINS]

20 hours ago, chpettit19 said:

I'm confused here. I don't see a change in approach at all. Julien swung out of his shoes last year, too. Well, helmet (I've never seen someone lose their helmet on a swing so often). I don't see any change in his approach at all. He hit a HR every 25 PAs last year. He's at about 1 every 20 this year. That isn't some massive change and can easily be explained by a 2 HR game in a small sample size. If he had 3 HRs right now instead of 4 he'd be at nearly the exact same PA/HR rate as last year (25.5 last year, 25.3 if he were at 3 HRs right now).

You say not every hitter needs to have 25 HR power, but over a full season Julien was at 25 HR power last year. If he played 150 games he'd get around 650 PAs in the year. At his 25.5 PA/HR rate last year he'd hit 25.5 HRs in 650 PAs. 

Julien is struggling. Nearly the entire offense is struggling. But I don't see any change in his approach. Small sample size noise? Sure. But he's 1 HR off his pace from last year. Which you claim was a good approach while also saying he doesn't need to be a 25 HR guy even though he was a 25 HR guy. Really confused by this stance.

On Tuesday morning - after a “swinging K” and then a line drive single up the middle - a drive off the base of the wall in left center for a double - a bomb HR to RF………..he’s now on pace for maybe 33HR? Your small sample size comments seem to have come to fruition last night. Hope he stays hot!

I’d take .255 BA - .350 OBP - 26HR …….,decent defense ………that’s a valuable guy at 2B!! …….. regardless of the occasional frustration with bunches of K’s.

[joefish]

21 hours ago, twinzcynic said:

Unfortunately this seems to be a bit of an organizational-wide issue. The headline could easily be "Did the Twins Sell Out Too Much for Power?"

Yes. No need to blame EJ.

[RpR]

3 hours ago, JD-TWINS said:

On Tuesday morning - after a “swinging K” and then a line drive single up the middle - a drive off the base of the wall in left center for a double - a bomb HR to RF………..he’s now on pace for maybe 33HR? Your small sample size comments seem to have come to fruition last night. Hope he stays hot!

I’d take .255 BA - .350 OBP - 26HR …….,decent defense ………that’s a valuable guy at 2B!! …….. regardless of the occasional frustration with bunches of K’s.

Joey Gallo went 3 for 4 in game this year too.

IF, if Chicago is a bad as so many here say, this series mean nothing for Twins batting numbers; wait till the next two teams that will be a better sample.

[JD-TWINS]

44 minutes ago, RpR said:

Joey Gallo went 3 for 4 in game this year too.

IF, if Chicago is a bad as so many here say, this series mean nothing for Twins batting numbers; wait till the next two teams that will be a better sample.

Agreed - one game doesn’t change the year’s outcome. You play who you play though …….last night was the Twins first game of the year, since game 2 v. Royals, against a team that doesn’t have a winning record.

Guardians have had at least 10 games with SOX & A’s combined……,all the teams/games count.

Julien has his average up to .211 - another 3 hits in this series and he’s on his way……,,Gallo is hitting .143 this year & has a career .193 career average…….low blow, but funny, to compare Julien to Joey.

[BsuNemo]

18 minutes ago, JD-TWINS said:

Agreed - one game doesn’t change the year’s outcome. You play who you play though …….last night was the Twins first game of the year, since game 2 v. Royals, against a team that doesn’t have a winning record.

Yeah - because the Twins have given those teams 13 wins!!  Detroit and KC aren't above 500 if we don't lose to them - that is a bent statistic to feel better about a terrible start.  To think those two teams are "tough competition" shows just how terrible we did this off-season and are doing right now that KC and Detroit can be considered teams that are better that we are.