05-02-2023, 04:11 PM
(05-02-2023, 01:02 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: It seems like forever ago that a bunch of people were touting Nick as the Reds savior. The next Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, whoever you want to bring up?
And the still kinda young man has just been snake bit. And he's never even really come close to being "the guy" that takes the team on his shoulders.
He started off this season pretty much same old Nick missed the first 10 or 12 games on DL. Then when he started playing he was cold as ice. But over the last several games he's raised his average to .310 hit three HR's and driven in 12. Earning NL player of the week.
Can he really turn his basically awful career around and at least be considered good? Or is this just fools gold?
I think we have a lot of data on Senzel already that suggests he is what he is at this point. He is still young at 27, but he has had nearly 1000 at bats and has proven over those at bats that he is nothing but a below average hitter. It's definitely not impossible, but is probably unlikely that he is going to see such a sudden improvement. My guess is that by season end has regressed down to an OPS+ of 80-ish, batting somewhere around .240.
Would love to be wrong there and see him break out.
