Gianstoppable wrote:trwi7 wrote:I mean, people got all excited because all of these writers are going Miller Park is much better hitters park than Marlins Park, the homers and power will go up big time!
Like do you guys even look at anything? Dude hits the ball on the ground a ton. Doesn't matter what park you're in when you're hitting it on the ground. He has the 5th highest ground ball rate in the majors from 2014-now at 58.1%. The only players that have higher ground ball rates in that time are Aoki, Howie Kendrick, Dee Gordon and Ben Revere. This year he's managed to get his ground ball rate to 53.7% but that's still 10th worst in the majors ahead of only Ian Desmond, Jon Jay, Eric Hosmer (another lol at that contract), Trey Mancini, Dee Gordon, Ketel Marte, Nomar Mazara, Jose Pirela and Alex Gordon.
Last I checked, you don't hit a lot of homers or get a lot of extra base hits when you keep pounding the ball into the ground.
Yelich needs to work on his launch angle. He has the power, a minor tweek could turn him into a 25+ homer guy.
This all true but you're ignoring that his career road splits were WAY better than his home splits over a 250+ game sample size. He was still hitting ball on the ground on the road and putting up much better power numbers. There was also a graphic that laid all of his fly balls from last season over Miller Park's dimensions and he would have hit around 5 more homers if I remember correctly.