Reds month of June game thread

[grampahol]

(06-17-2019, 02:53 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Baseball players drive me crazy.  Their production will fluctuate wildly for no apparent reason.

Take Schebler for instance.  Coming into this season he had over 1100 major league at bats with a career .768 OPS.  He was no "one-year-wonder" or a "flash in the pan".  He had played 4 seasons and never had an OPS lower than .762.  For those of you who don't know a .762 OPS would be good for 21st among all NL outfielders right now.  It is not All-Star level, but it is very solid production.  So why the hell was he just hitting .123 when we demoted him this year?

Winker had only had about 400 major league at bats before this season but he had a career .299 avg.  Now he is hitting .244.

Tucker Barnhart had 1500 at bats coming into this season.  He had hit between .248 and .270 each of the last 4 seasons and had a career average over .250.  Now he is benched with a .199 avg.

Puig had a career .279 avg and had never hit lower than .255.  He is only hitting .231 right now and that is just because he has 10 hits in his last 20 ABs to raise his average from ,210 just 5 games ago.

It's always been like this. We as Reds fans got spoiled with the BRM and the 1990 season and a handful of HOFers, but the league averages don't look too great for fringe players on last place teams.