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By Brian Joura
In the seven games since his recall from the minors after a one-game rehab, Mark Vientos sports a .318/.423/.682 line, thanks in part to a triple and two homers among his seven hits. The other part is that he’s required a .417 BABIP to produce that .318 AVG. But besides being lucky with his hits falling in, has there been anything different with Vientos this time, compared to earlier in the year? Let’s dig into the numbers.
My complaint with Vientos is that seemingly every PA, he was down either 0-2 and 1-2 and virtually no one does very good in those counts. In MLB so far this season, when the PA ends with an 0-2 count, the OPS for the hitter is .409 in 15,304 PA. And it’s not much better when it ends at 1-2, as hitters have a .424 OPS in 24,349 PA. For Vientos this year, the OPS numbers are .500 and .324, respectively.
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