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To: Conserv

His progress is almost miraculous, given his lack of baseball background.

He’s been splitting LF with 27-year old Kevin Taylor, a converted 2Bman.

Taylor: 235 AB, .281 BA, 2 HR, 25 RBI
Tebow: 203 AB, .256 BA, 5 HR, 27 RBI

Tebow is weak defensively and has struck out 85 times in 203 ABs, 20+ more SOs than anyone else on the team. That’s actually an improving rate.

Tebow’s pretty good numbers are mostly due to a hot streak the last month. It takes a real ballplayer to even have a hot streak that long.


8 posted on 06/27/2018 1:47:20 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM! for sure!)
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Over 40% strikeout rate at this level after being professionally coached for over a year is a big red flag, he needs to learn to make contact if he is ever going to move up.

https://www.fangraphs.com/tht/how-many-strikeouts-is-too-many/

Rooting for him though.


16 posted on 06/27/2018 2:52:07 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
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To: jjotto

The problem with him is that he may get too old before he gets the pitch recognition of a college level player. That’s his whole problem. Every step up in baseball requires a huge step in patience at the plate, and the ability to foul off good pitches with a 2-strike count. He’s about 30 now.


28 posted on 06/27/2018 7:07:59 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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