Elly needs to drop the switch hitting

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(06-04-2025, 07:58 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Yeah, you're not outsmarting anyone to send a guy out there with a history of performing worse when batting RH. I wonder how his stats vs LH pitching when batting LH compare to when he bats RH vs LH pitching?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=delacel01&year=Career&t=b

Never has done it.

I'm not shitting on the guy, because he clearly has MLB talent and belongs in the majors, but he's not the superstar that you fans think he will be or like the promise he showed when he came up 2 years ago: he's deplorable in the field (a switch to 3B or 2B may help his bat too) and doesn't walk enough for how much he strikes out. Those two knocks against him will hamper him his entire career unless he fixes them.

Your K/BB ratio should be 2:1, but if you strike out under 100 times a year, it's not a big deal. 200+ strikeouts and 67 walks? That's Mark Reynolds territory (shudder).