Arenado, Cease, L. Garcia, Gore, Profar

Where has Arenado’s power gone? … Nolan Arenado (3B, STL) faded down the stretch in 2023, batting .235 with 4 HR and .628 OPS in 179 PA over the final two months before lower back spasms ended his season. Things haven’t gone much better so far in 2024, as he has a .263 batting average with only 3 HR through 213 PA. What’s going on here?

Year	PA	HR/xHR	BA/xBA	bb%/ct%	GB/LD/FB	h%	HctX	PX/xPX	HR/F	Brl%	Spd
2021	655	34/21	.255/.271	8/84	31/19/50	25	116	123/127	14%	7%	88
2022	620	30/22	.293/.292	8/87	30/20/50	29	121	136/116	12%	8%	71
2023	612	26/20	.266/.270	7/82	39/21/40	28	113	102/93	14%	7%	91
2H23	278	10/7	.252/.278	7/84	41/22/36	26	112	91/73	13%	6%	83
2024	213	3/ N/A	.263/.246	6/81	38/24/38	30	83	69/68	4%	2%	74

The quality of contact has taken a massive fall:

• Arenado’s xPX and FB% are virtually the...

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