Nimmo's slightly off-season, to date

[roger_that]

By his career standards (slash of .266/.393/.445 coming into this year), he's a little off, despite being healthy and showing off his fielding bona fides in CF, slashing .267/.347/.426 so far. I've been waiting for him to catch fire, and on August 3rd I'm still waiting. I maintain that he helps you even when his hits are going right atom and his BA is down because he walks and HBPs enough to justify batting in the leadoff spot, but that .347 is way under his usual standard, and is about middling in the starting lineup. Canha, Guillorme, McSquirl, Alonso, and Marte all have better.

[whippoorwill]

I think he's the one I had on my fantasy team once, and I waited and waited for him to hit and I finally cut him loose because of his strikeouts

[smg58]

Most of the team went cold in July, and Nimmo was not an exception. I'm figuring a mild bounceback. It's worth noting that his 120 OPS+ is not that far below his 128 career norm.

[Ceetar]

He's walking much less. He's also striking out less, but that's because he's making less contact, as a result of swinging at more pitches, particularly out of the zone. (21.2% versus his career average of 17.2) He's making way more contact, which feels like it's a red herring. If he was missing some of those out of zone pitches maybe he'd stop swinging at them.



It's not that he's not hitting the ball hard, because he's squaring up just as many balls, if not more, than average. But he's traded some walks on pitches outside for softer contact grounders. His pull numbers are down in favor of more groundballs straight/oppo. Is this a "use all fields" strategy? If it is, it's a good example of how trading just walloping pitches to the pull side for trying to beat the shift doesn't often work out. Though they're actually shifting Nimmo much less this year, probably because he did much better last year when they shifted on him.



He went from elite walk skills to middling this year. Though he bumped up on the power numbers, Barrels, exit velocity, etc. fwiw, this might fit into the Mets lineup a little bit better, as they're a little lacking in power, so if Nimmo is selling out some OBP for turning a few more hits into homers, perhaps that's worthwhile.





but most importantly..last year he LED MLB in average HR Trot at 18.29 seconds , and he's fallen to second this year with 19.12. (There are actually 5 people ahead of him, but I don't think they all 'qualify'. Sam Haggerty, Steven Kwan, Brett Phillips, Tyler O'Neill, and Nick Solak). Vogelbach is slowest on the team at 26.9. Alex Verdugo of Boston is the slowest, 29.7. Good time to get another beer after he hits one.

[roger_that]

=smg58 post_id=102106 time=1659537598 user_id=62]
his 120 OPS+ is not that far below his 128 career norm.

[roger_that]

Brett Phillips was recently DFA's by the Rays. I think the Orioles picked him up. Maybe we should have? He's a good player, especially at that price.

[Ceetar]

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Brett Phillips was recently DFA's by the Rays. I think the Orioles picked him up. Maybe we should have? He's a good player, especially at that price.

[seawolf17]

=Ceetar post_id=102116 time=1659539570 user_id=102]
=roger_that post_id=102113 time=1659538424 user_id=128]
Brett Phillips was recently DFA's by the Rays. I think the Orioles picked him up. Maybe we should have? He's a good player, especially at that price.

[kcmets]

I took ... seems the most reasonable guess.



(Sidenote: Nimmo is going to have a monster five-game series against the

Braves. Put that in the books. Monster, I tell ya!

[Edgy MD]

=smg58 post_id=102106 time=1659537598 user_id=62]
Most of the team went cold in July, and Nimmo was not an exception.

[Frayed Knot]

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=Ceetar post_id=102116 time=1659539570 user_id=102]
=roger_that post_id=102113 time=1659538424 user_id=128]
Brett Phillips was recently DFA's by the Rays. I think the Orioles picked him up. Maybe we should have? He's a good player, especially at that price.

[roger_that]

Frayed Knot wrote: =seawolf17 post_id=102118 time=1659539797 user_id=91] =Ceetar post_id=102116 time=1659539570 user_id=102] He's hitting like Patrick Mazeika, just in 10x as many tries.

Just when you think you can't find anyone who's less of an MLB hitter... WHAMMO Brett Phillips and his career .190/.276/.350 in almost *900* career PAs.