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Originally Posted by moon
Well those are decent numbers if you are cherry picking stats but if you take this season into consideration he is hitting .235 for his career, with a mediocre on base percentage and OPS. Those numbers are also trending down, which isn't a great sign.
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It's ridiculous to say a player is trending anywhere based on the 70 plate appearances he's had this season.
The kid has about less than 2/3 of a full season in AB's and he's already getting written off. Most popular baseball stats don't actually normalize themselves until a player gets 1.5-2 seasons of play.
The key with Snider is that he has a .143 BABIP (batting average of balls in play), good for third lowest in the league. Anyone who follows baseball stats knows that a hitter has very little control of this and that MLBers consistently trend towards .300 over the course of their career. It's the easiest way to determine if a player's numbers are the product of poor play or just poor luck.
The only two players below Snider in BABIP - struggling sluggers Texieria (.534 OPS) and Quentin (.630 OPS). In fact, of all the 10 players below .200 in BABIP Quentin's .630 OPS is second to Garrett Jones' .781 OPS.