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Originally Posted by zukes
Wow! Settle down. They just need to fix his launch angle and he'll be fine. The bad defense is likely because he is carrying his at-bats with him. He is absolutely smashing balls a lot of the time. The problem is, the ground is taking the brunt of too many of those.
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His launch angle has been a problem since the minors, where it wasn't exposed as much by high end pitchers.
If he was mashing balls into the ground while working counts with good plate discipline, I wouldn't be worried. But he looks pretty lost at the plate and his discipline is nonexistant.