O. Cruz, Burleson, Fedde, Nelson, Merrifield

Cruz is still a work in progress … A fractured fibula ended Oneil Cruz’s (SS, PIT) 2023 season on April 9. He got off to a sluggish start in 2024, but has a .257 BA with 17 HR and 10 SB through 401 PA. How are the underlying metrics?

Year	PA	HR/SB	BA/xBA	bb%/ct%	GB/LD/FB	h%	HctX	PX/xPX	Brl%	HR/F	Spd/SBO/SB%
2021*	301	13/14	.269/.280	7/71	60/20/20	33	234	128/178	40%	100%	125/26%/80%
2022*	592	22/17	.214/.227	8/65	49/17/34	28	109	126/119	16%	24%	136/24%/61%
2023	40	1/3	.250/.197	17/75	45/8/50	30	25	73/41	4%	8%	122/23%/100%
2024	401	17/10	.257/.242	7/64	43/19/37	35	104	156/132	19%	19%	100/13%/90%
*Includes MLEs

Aside from ct%, this is an exciting skill set:

• He has managed to increase his ct% a few points from 2022, but it remains in bad shape. That limits his BA upside. It’s worth noting that...

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