PT TOMORROW: AL Central -- Power trip in the Windy City
Aug 24 2020
The South Side Lumber Company hit 27 home runs in a seven game period, capped off by an eleven-HR outburst against the Cubs on August 21-22, the best such power display in the franchise’s 120 years of operation. Who is driving this power explosion?
Eloy Jiménez (OF, CHW; pictured above) is second on the team with nine HR, despite hitting the ball on the ground 53% of the time. The 2020 Baseball Forecaster noted his 2H-2019 improvements in ct%, HctX and xPx, and an early 2020 Facts and Flukes analysis highlighted his strong September 2019 as an indicator of the possible upside. His first month of the 2020 season has not quite hit that high mark, but generally correlates with those second half results overall, while a...
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