Saturday, September 23, 2017

Rougned Odor and the Meaningless 30 Homer Season

My favorite article of the day comes from the Dallas News. Rougned Odor of the Rangers is having a year that is truly remarkable, and I mean 'remarkable' in the negative sense. Odor has thirty home runs on the season, but only an OPS+ of 68, which means that he is offensively 32% below the league average player. This is the lowest OPS+ for a 30 home run hitter in MLB history, besting the previous mark of 86.3 by Tony Batista in 2004. His all-or-nothing swings are giving away too many at-bats and costing him team offensive production from their second basemen. Is his approach fixable? We'll see, but his poor offense is hurting a team still in Wild Card contention. 154 Ks and a .206 doesn't justify 30 homers and 74 RBI.

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