Let's Look At Some Early-Season Plate Approach Changes
April 19, 2021 It is still early in the season, but one of the aspects of hitting that stabilizesrelatively quickly is changes to approach. Swings are a more common occurrence, so the sample for these statistics grows faster than those that rely on an accumulation of plate appearances. So who seems to have made some changes in the early going? To get an idea, I took all players who accumulated 250 plate appearances combined in the 2019 and ’20 seasons (I chose to group these seasons together because of the brevity of the pandemic-shortened campaign), then filtered by those who meet the qua...
Source: fangraphs.com