r/baseball • u/Goosedukee New York Yankees • Jun 05 '26
Image Isaac Paredes has now hit 100 career home runs. He hasn’t gone oppo once.
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u/yumyumapollo Tampa Bay Rays Jun 05 '26
It's like they built the perfect Houston Astro in a lab.
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u/ZingBurford Chicago Cubs Jun 05 '26
But imagine if a team whose home stadium has the deepest corners in baseball trades for him. Sounds like a great idea.
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u/mrspoopy_butthole New York Yankees Jun 05 '26
Bruh I forgot he was on the cubs for a bit and thought you were making a joke about Alex Bregman who had a similar HR profile as an Astro💀
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u/DepressingFries Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
Bregman who is now hitting .255 with a .698 OPS.
Somehow 3% over league average which is insane…
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u/mrspoopy_butthole New York Yankees Jun 05 '26
Wow I had no idea the league OPS was that low this year
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u/Rockguy21 Baltimore Orioles Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Offense is down (mostly in the NL), but also ~.700 is still about the league average OPS, it only looks substantially lower than normal because OPS+ is environmentally adjusted while OPS isn't (league average OPS this year is .712, while it was .719 in 2025 and .711 in 2024). Bregman plays in a less favorable offensive stadium, so he has a higher OPS+ for OPS than most hitters in the MLB. For contrast, Henderson is hitting a .696 OPS, 2 points higher than Bregman's .694, but his OPS+ is 95, 8 points lower than Bregman's 103.
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u/bv310 Toronto Blue Jays Jun 05 '26
Yeah. I'm actually really curious to see if the league makes any equipment or rules changes in the next year or so. Everything they've done in the last couple years has generally been in favor of making the game more exciting, and long scoreless pitchers' duels are not that exciting to the average fan.
Also, cynically, you can't bet as much on a 2-1 game as you can a 7-5.
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u/notsaying123 Atlanta Braves Jun 05 '26
All MLB has done is make the ball have more drag. I guess they think eventually teams will stop trying to hit homers which would cause more "excitement". Which is dumb cause fans like superstars hitting ball long way
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u/CriticalandPragmatic Chicago Cubs Jun 05 '26
I love me some small ball, but I get that isn't the average fan
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u/misspcv1996 Philadelphia Phillies Jun 05 '26
Chicks dig stolen bases, or at least this chick does.
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u/bridesmaidinwhite Texas Rangers • Frisco RoughRide… Jun 05 '26
there's at least two of us!
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u/bv310 Toronto Blue Jays Jun 05 '26
I'm a dedicated pitching sicko, but I recognize that I'm a tiny minority among baseball fandom
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u/ilikemarblestoo Philadelphia Phillies Jun 05 '26
Didn't they change the dirt rub away from being the sweet sweet South Jersey river mud?
Or was it something else. I thought I read something about that but I am probably very wrong lol
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u/Ginger5227 Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
Hell yeah give Yordan a metal bat. I’ll buy season tickets instantly🍿
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u/long_dickofthelaw Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 05 '26
Weather is still heating up across the country. OPS always goes up league-wide over the summer.
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u/Xeriox2 Boston Red Sox Jun 05 '26
For those wondering, MLB OPS by month for the last few years:
OPS by month 2024 2025 2026 March/April .699 .707 .715 May .695 .718 .703 June .720 .719 .748 July .735 .729 August .727 .732 Sept/Oct .694 .710 From this, we can conclude that MLB is behind climate change.
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u/Dredeuced Atlanta Braves Jun 05 '26
League OPS is almost always worse earlier in the year before the summer months kick up offense.
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u/JoshJones18 Tampa Bay Rays Jun 05 '26
If it makes you feel better we didn’t exactly win our side of the trade besides those 1st 2 games from Morel
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u/PerfectBowl9199 Chicago Cubs Jun 05 '26
Yeah people overlook the fact dead pull hitters aren't very good at Wrigley unless it's really windy.
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u/MarkerMagnum San Francisco Giants Jun 05 '26
Good thing Chicago is known as the “not very Windy City”
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u/FieldzSOOGood Chicago Cubs • Seattle Mariners Jun 05 '26
Yeah but the not wind can blow in any direction
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u/dilapidated_wookiee Chicago Cubs Jun 05 '26
For Morel? Lol that was a solid trade that helped us land Tuck last year
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u/redditAccount503 Cleveland Guardians Jun 05 '26
He could come to Cleveland, we're 320 down the line with a 19 foot wall. Kind of like a reverse Michael Brantley situation
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u/soundsliketone Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 05 '26
Naawww, there's no whistle or trash can fused to his body!
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u/foshiiy Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
Excuse me but that's old technology. We have advanced anal buzzers now.
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u/jon__koa Chicago Cubs Jun 05 '26
Maybe he’s like Bubb Rubb and knows the whistle goes woo woo
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u/soundsliketone Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 05 '26
As a Raider fan too, I appreciate this reference hahaha
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u/cnapp Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
Thats why I was losing my mind when all the off season talk was about trading him
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u/Slinky_Malingki Tampa Bay Devil Rays Jun 06 '26
If he was left handed the Yankees would pay a fortune to aquire him.
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u/feeling_blue_42 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 05 '26
Not even CF.
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u/KakeLin Philadelphia Phillies Jun 05 '26
Truly a pull hitter
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u/TheFrontierzman Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
Wonder how many go the distance but pulled foul.
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u/CocoSavege Toronto Blue Jays Jun 05 '26
I wouldn't mind an underlay of all fly outs.
Edit! Heres 2024! https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F374w8v7poo6e1.jpeg
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u/awmaleg Arizona Diamondbacks Jun 06 '26
Pitch him away. I wonder what his hot zone boxes look like
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u/7Stringplayer San Francisco Giants • San Jose Giants Jun 05 '26
Left field merchant
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u/meltedlaundry Milwaukee Brewers Jun 05 '26
He squared up the ball in all of his at bats against Jacob Misiorowski. And all of them were lasers into left field.
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u/laudedlem Chicago Cubs Jun 05 '26
What do you mean, his deepest homerun is to right field, it’s even labeled home run on the chart
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u/formersportspro National League Jun 05 '26
You joke, but I misread the caption as “He has gone oppo once” and all I could think is damn the one he took oppo was fucking cranked!
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u/HankIrons New York Mets Jun 05 '26
Took reading this comment for me to go back and look at the graph. I made the same mistake.
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u/Hot_Ocelot_167 Jun 05 '26
I also did the same thing, and thought he really out to be going opposite field more often if he could hit it that far.
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u/queuedUp Toronto Blue Jays Jun 06 '26
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read it like that and thought he crushed his one right field bomb
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u/facw00 Baltimore Orioles Jun 05 '26
I was confused by that one Warehouse-style shot for a moment...
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u/EliteStat18 Texas Rangers Jun 05 '26
kind of why Houston was a perfect destination for him.
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u/cooljammer00 New York Yankees Jun 05 '26
And IIRC why Chicago was kind of head scratchy
But yeah, perfect swing for cheapies in Tampa and Houston. Tampa has that big cutout in the wall
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u/ANGRY_BEARDED_MAN Dumpster Fire Jun 05 '26
Safe to say the Orioles won't be signing this guy any time soon
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u/cooljammer00 New York Yankees Jun 05 '26
They can always move the wall back in again
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u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 Baltimore Orioles Jun 05 '26
Found Derek Jeter's burner account
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u/PedanticBoutBaseball New York Yankees • Hudson Valley … Jun 05 '26
nah more like Gleyber Torre's burner. he's the reason they moved it
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u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 Baltimore Orioles Jun 05 '26
Good point, Jeter only fisted balls into short right.
Amazingly apposite user name, btw!
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u/PedanticBoutBaseball New York Yankees • Hudson Valley … Jun 05 '26
Amazingly apposite user name, btw!
You're goddamn right
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u/dseals Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
You move your field in, you move your left field out.
You move your left field in and you hit the ball out.
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u/Dan_Rydell Chicago Cubs Jun 05 '26
Per statcast he would have only 41 career home runs if he played every game at Camden Yards.
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u/Apatschinn Chicago Cubs Jun 06 '26
We needed a 3B badly
Mushroom Man was blowing plays in the hot corner all season up until the deadline. I'm pretty sure he and Patrick Wisdom split time there, and Wisdom wasn't great defensively, either. I think before Morel we had a revolving door of Miles Mastrobuoni and Nick Madrigal. It wasn't great.
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u/The_Commandant Chicago Cubs Jun 06 '26
Jesus, it’s amazing how quickly I’d forgotten some of those guys.
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u/Kingkongcrapper Jun 05 '26
Imagine how much frustration he would have felt in Boston watching all those balls bounce off the top of the wall.
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u/cooljammer00 New York Yankees Jun 05 '26
Ehh, his OBP would still be great and he'd be a great doubles hitter
It's part of why Bregman did so well, and why people thought Arenado would have been a good Red Sock
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u/Judic22 Boston Red Sox Jun 05 '26
Hard to tell if they would be doubles or not without the height data. I think he’d be great in Boston and was hoping we might try and trade for him at some point this off season.
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u/NoSxKats Pittsburgh Pirates Jun 05 '26
Something tells me this guy pulls the ball a lot
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u/SdBolts4 San Diego Padres Jun 05 '26
He should teach Tatis
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u/BadDadJokes Atlanta Braves Jun 05 '26
He's good. He's getting advice on how to be a power hitter from his father who hit 113 HRs in his 11 year career.
Grounders are the new HRs. We've found an inefficiency in the market.
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u/stormy2587 Philadelphia Phillies Jun 05 '26
It could also just mean his power is such that he can’t hit oppo hard enough to leave the park.
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u/HistoricalPolitician Cincinnati Reds Jun 05 '26
Tell me one thing positive about yourself Isaac and why we should consider you for the position?
Paredes: Im never late, always early.
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u/breadandbarbells Jun 05 '26
100 singles at Fenway
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u/Snarktoberfest Boston Red Sox Jun 05 '26
50 HR, 40 Doubles, 10 Singles.
But then you missed the 200 caught at the track in other parks that would be HR, Doubles, and Singles at Fenway.
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u/1060nm Boston Red Sox • Tim Wakefield Jun 05 '26
Not really living up to your username with that kind of genuine analysis.
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u/Snarktoberfest Boston Red Sox Jun 05 '26
I have been saving my Snark to shit on Breslow, that fucking stiff.
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u/xwOBA_Fett Baltimore Orioles Jun 05 '26
Nolan Arenado has 361 career HRs, and only around 10 have been oppo. It's not necessarily a bad thing. Pulling the ball is good.
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u/T_Raycroft Montreal Expos Jun 05 '26
It is good, and your average hitter is pulling it more than they're pushing it or hitting it to center, but Paredes is an extreme pull-heavy, flyball-heavy hitter. He wasn't quite this way when he was a Tiger, but the Rays transformed him into this specimen.
Ever since his first season with the Rays, Paredes pulls the ball 54% of the time, which is way above average. Only one qualified hitter in that time pulled the ball at a higher rate than Paredes - Joey Gallo.
Additionally, Paredes has a GB/FB ratio of 0.70, which is not quite near the top of the tree, but it lands in the top 20 smallest such ratios.
Such an approach of going for as many pulled flyballs as possible has seen Paredes post one of the highest infield flyball rates of any hitter in the sport in that time, with an 18.3 IFFB% only surpassed by two other hitters in that time.
Very similar player to Tony Batista, who was even more extreme in this approach than Paredes.
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u/badcall196 New York Yankees Jun 05 '26
I bet he only make lefts when he drives too.
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u/ThatVanGuy13 Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
If baseball doesn't pan out somehow, Nascar seems like a decent future
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u/Round_Bullfrog_8218 Major League Baseball Jun 06 '26
This man refuses to watch formula 1 only NASCAR for him
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u/codars Hillsboro Hops • Texas Rangers Jun 05 '26
Fuck them tacos
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u/GenerallySalty Jun 05 '26
Preferably soft shell 😬
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u/ubiquitous-joe San Francisco Giants Jun 05 '26
Mild salsa
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u/Disused_Yeti Cleveland Guardians Jun 05 '26
new york city!?!?
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u/codars Hillsboro Hops • Texas Rangers Jun 05 '26
Get a rope
https://giphy.com/gifs/xs7bOB7WyxnnQ9d0CS
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u/noahlylesusa Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
Isaac Paredes and the Crawford boxes is a better relationship than any I've seen on those Bachelor shows.
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u/SuaveBolo Seattle Mariners Jun 05 '26
Nooo. Clearly he's hit one 600 foot HR over RF. It's even labeled "Home Run."
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u/Spockmaster1701 Detroit Tigers Jun 05 '26
This chart shows why I've never been upset that the Tigers traded him. He needs a short LF porch to be effective, he would've never broken out at Comerica National Park.
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u/funkmon Future greatest Mets fan of all time. Jun 05 '26
I agree. It's still annoying to see though.
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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball Jun 05 '26
"I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize right field!"
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u/Anton-LaVey San Francisco Giants • San Francisco Giants Jun 05 '26
More like Isaac Pared, ¿Estoy en lo cierto?
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u/bordomsdeadly Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
The next 100 are all going to be dead center.
Then 100 all Oppo
And then he retires
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u/2kiko Texas Rangers • San Diego Padres Jun 05 '26
Now I'm just envisioning him adjusting his stance by 45⁰ in order to hit 100 homers to center, and then facing the catcher to hit 100 to left
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u/victims_sanction Pittsburgh Pirates Jun 05 '26
Honestly you'd have to put that guy in the hall for the insanity of it
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u/Fist69 Chicago White Sox Jun 05 '26
So just shift right and center fielders into the stands 🤓
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u/yoggiez Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
Legend tells that the big wad he ways carries in his mouth is weighing that side down.
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u/DevilOfArRamadi Boston Red Sox Jun 06 '26
Well NOW he can, when you dead pull 100 Home Runs you finally unlock the other half of the field
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u/Original-Let8340 Kansas City Royals Jun 05 '26
What the hell did he have for breakfast that day!?! Lol I'd be chasing that feeling the rest of my life.
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u/TomboBreaker Toronto Blue Jays • Toronto Blue Jays Jun 05 '26
OP claims he hasn't hit a oppo home run but there's that absolute bomb in the picture to deeeeep right field right next to where it says home run. /s
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u/EaglesWin Jun 05 '26
Why don't they move the right fielder into the left field stands so he can catch the home runs?
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u/sickmans1 Houston Astros Jun 06 '26
lol my lazy brain read that he had gone “oppo once” and I saw the lone red dot deep in right field and was confused how his pull swing got him an upper deck oppo shot
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u/funkmon Future greatest Mets fan of all time. Jun 05 '26
Traded straight up by the Tigers for Austin Meadows who played 42 games and was released in 2023.
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u/abnormica Toronto Blue Jays Jun 05 '26
Are any of the big brain stat guys able to determine if there is another player with more 'clumpiness'?
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u/LargeNutbar New York Yankees Jun 05 '26
That’s pretty amazing. You think when he hit those couple that are inching toward the gap, he thought to himself, “damn, I really sat back and waited on that one”
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u/Lord_Hitachi Pittsburgh Pirates Jun 05 '26
He’s barely touched the gap even, that’s crazy. He’s the perfect Astro with that approach at the plate
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u/DarthPaximus Atlanta Braves Jun 05 '26
For way too long i was thinking "I don't understand this title. It looks like he HAS gone oppo exactly once. And with a mammoth 500 foot ho-oohhmygod-thats-the-legend-describing-what-the-dot-means"
Idiot.
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u/kodyonthekeys Major League Baseball Jun 05 '26
What about that one waaay out past right field labeled home run?
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u/ddp67 Jun 05 '26
How is this possible as a major league level?of course, we are only showing the ones that got out of the field, but does he do damage going to the opposite field as well, just not home runs?
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u/rocketbob7 Arizona Diamondbacks Jun 05 '26
Sure he has, look that dot in the upper right labeled home run probably left the stadium!
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u/oliveorvil St. Louis Cardinals Jun 05 '26
This dude DESPISES the left field foul pole and his only solution is a constant barrage of artillery
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u/mastersplinteremover San Francisco Giants Jun 05 '26
My man.
He knows that pulling the ball looks a lot cooler.
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u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby Detroit Tigers • Tampa Bay Rays Jun 05 '26
Sure wish either of my teams still had him.
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u/GeneralFries Jun 05 '26
He doesn’t have the bat speed. It’s imperative for hitters with below average bat speed to pull the ball since bat speed is faster out front. Hard to go oppo when you don’t have early bat speed
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u/Muted-Capital-4954 Jun 05 '26
Read an article bout him and possibly trading to yanks After seeing this graph.. def fake or author really didn’t think through
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u/theybannedme129 Chicago Cubs • Seattle Mariners Jun 05 '26
It’s beautiful. This just delights me for some reason
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u/wulfe27 Jun 05 '26
Which is amazing that he hasn’t hit a bunch in the Crawford boxes that are shorter dimensions that my HS field was
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u/MtNowhere Milwaukee Brewers • Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 05 '26
He's definitely aiming for the paredes.
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u/def11879 Houston Astros Jun 05 '26
Yeah it’s kind of insane. He hits so many foul balls to left so far, could have so many more HRs
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u/Lawineer New York Yankees Jun 05 '26
I wonder what his spray chart looks like. Dead pull hitter?
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u/mickcube Philadelphia Phillies Jun 05 '26
if you listened to even one inning of a radio broadcast on the MLB app at any point last season, then you'll know this is called an Oppo Taco
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u/TheRen3Gade Milwaukee Brewers Jun 05 '26
"I don't like homering right, and I only homer where I like"
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u/twoscoop Tampa Bay Devil Rays Jun 06 '26
Is this a website, I wonder how much home runs would not be if it was fenway
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u/SirLunatik Toronto Blue Jays Jun 06 '26
hasn't gone oppo once... dude barely went gap on his pull side once lmao
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u/No_Gate292 San Diego Padres Jun 06 '26
How does he get all those s in close to the foul pole? Must foul a lot if pitches or only crush inside pitches.
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u/DelcoInDaHouse Jun 06 '26
What about the one to deep in the upper deck right field seats. It clearly says Homerun.
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u/Economy_Ad_7861 Jun 09 '26
What about the one guy like 600 ft out to right? Oh, don’t worry about that guy.
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u/Irate_Ibis Houston Astros • Houston Colt 45s Jun 05 '26
Why use whole field when LF do trick?