More accurately, you need a dose of both. Contact without power leads to the worst OPS in baseball and one of the lowest runs scored in baseball. Teams need power in today's game and with power comes strikeouts.
And you can't hit into a double play if you don't put the ball in play.
There are a lot of reasons why batting average is so devalued in modern baseball.
And it's not because these guys* who run billion-dollar franchises are stupid about baseball.
*Kim Ng runs the Marlins so we should probably stop saying "guys" here, me included
Some of us were at the 50% mark and are still at the 50% mark. It's a few innings of a 162 game season. I do not understand why people get so up-and-down about baseball, it feels mentally unhealthy.
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I resent you making me go look it up. He's been pretty good over the past week. So I've mostly been watching while he's ripping liners and not watching when he isn't.
My thoughts are Correa, Buxton, and Kepler are in the midst of a high-stakes game of horse using a wastebasket in the tunnel and no one wants to be the one to try to stop the game.
I've tried to figure out the details on this but it isn't clear. It appears Kepler doesn't like playing center and the team doesn't see upside in forcing him into the position due to health considerations. This is conjecture, mind you, as I said I've tried to figure out why that keeps happening but no one seems to know.
Dunno, maybe. Maybe not. The most likely outcome is probably mediocrity but with variables like Correa, Miranda, Kirilloff, Buxton, Lewis, Wallner, et al in play, the ceiling should be pretty high.
Joey Gallo is just one of the most impossible baseball players I've ever seen. It's like he's two different players depending on whether he's holding a bat or wearing a glove. As a cohesive whole, he makes no sense.