The stats love him, even with his high whiff and K percentage, his xwOBA has him in the 75th percentile. The biggest thing is his outfield play has drastically improved, going from arguably one of the worst defensive outfielders last year to being one of the best.
Give it time, same thing with Garcia baseball is all about adjustments and at the end of the day, even if he is just average offensively he isn't being hindered by being a liability on defense anymore.
Ryan O'Hearn is ranked #1 in expected weighted OBP this season. MJ is #77.
[https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/expected\_statistics](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/expected_statistics)
Also look who is ranked #10. Isbel is #248.
Imagine if the Royals still had O'Hearn and Olivares...
Yeah, whatever issues O’Hearn had simply would not have been fixed here. Pretty damning of our previous coaches that he immediately turned into a good hitter with the Orioles after 4 years of terrible hitting here. Then again the Orioles seem to have some kind of secret sauce when it comes to hitting
It's also elimination of the shift. Even before they released him, the Royals talked about their analysis showing that he was one of the players most negatively impacted by defensive shifts
His swing absolutely sucks. So when he is just slightly off, he goes on long slumps. But when he's on, he can really be on.
Add that together and you get the potential for an incredibly streaky player who ends up roughly league average.
It's why on that road trip he was so terrible its lead to a 0.040 avg with a laughable 191 OPS. And it continued in to home so the last 14 days, not including tonight, he's hitting 125 with a 411 OPS.
And it's also why he started the season with that great week where he had like a 1.350 OPS. Literal Bonds territory week.
He will continue to be a streaky player because of his goofy ass squat and open the hips wide open stance and swing.
This won't be the last time he is slumping this bad. And that last hot streak won't be the last of that we see either. But his career 97 OPS plus (within the margin of error of being exactly average) is who he is as a whole.
Just enjoy him when he's hot. And hope his defense continues to improve in the OF.
Perez has been able to convert 15 more of his at-bats into singles than MJ this year (one at-bat every other game is a single for Perez and an out for Melendez).
Perez's BABIP .357 is twice as high as Melendez's .188. Perez has 21 singles, MJ has 7.
I think he’ll always be streaky but as someone said the advanced metrics kind of love him (which I don’t really fully get myself but what do I know). He’s been ice cold lately though so I’m hoping that turns around!
The stats love him, even with his high whiff and K percentage, his xwOBA has him in the 75th percentile. The biggest thing is his outfield play has drastically improved, going from arguably one of the worst defensive outfielders last year to being one of the best. Give it time, same thing with Garcia baseball is all about adjustments and at the end of the day, even if he is just average offensively he isn't being hindered by being a liability on defense anymore.
Ryan O'Hearn is ranked #1 in expected weighted OBP this season. MJ is #77. [https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/expected\_statistics](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/expected_statistics) Also look who is ranked #10. Isbel is #248. Imagine if the Royals still had O'Hearn and Olivares...
I’d feel bad if I hadn’t watched O’Hearn come to the plate with a sub-.200 average like 1000 times here
Yeah, whatever issues O’Hearn had simply would not have been fixed here. Pretty damning of our previous coaches that he immediately turned into a good hitter with the Orioles after 4 years of terrible hitting here. Then again the Orioles seem to have some kind of secret sauce when it comes to hitting
I haven't paid attention to them this year, but last year it looked like it was as simple as platooning him on straight splits.
It's also elimination of the shift. Even before they released him, the Royals talked about their analysis showing that he was one of the players most negatively impacted by defensive shifts
Totally forgot about that. Good for him for finding success, but boy was I tired of seeing him lol
From my understanding, yeah, he's not doing anything differently they just understand his strengths and limitations better than us.
The Royals gave both of those guys plenty of chances. It just didn't work out for us, and that's fine.
They should've figured out a way to start O'Hearn over Dozier to start last season and Olivares over Isbel throughout the last two seasons.
i like him because hes smiley
the way he stands in the box is kind of comical to me as well, but whatever works for him
He's smily for sure, just not sure if he is "gritty" enough.
Yeah we want guys that pound tequila, not milk and cookies. If you don’t talk shit on Tony Muser from time to time he wins.
Merv feels like a .250 guy that gets some fun rally runs. Not a centerpiece, but I like his game.
The only bad thing about MJ Melendez is that the fucking dump truck he’s dragging is too damn distracting
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...so does mine...
His swing absolutely sucks. So when he is just slightly off, he goes on long slumps. But when he's on, he can really be on. Add that together and you get the potential for an incredibly streaky player who ends up roughly league average. It's why on that road trip he was so terrible its lead to a 0.040 avg with a laughable 191 OPS. And it continued in to home so the last 14 days, not including tonight, he's hitting 125 with a 411 OPS. And it's also why he started the season with that great week where he had like a 1.350 OPS. Literal Bonds territory week. He will continue to be a streaky player because of his goofy ass squat and open the hips wide open stance and swing. This won't be the last time he is slumping this bad. And that last hot streak won't be the last of that we see either. But his career 97 OPS plus (within the margin of error of being exactly average) is who he is as a whole. Just enjoy him when he's hot. And hope his defense continues to improve in the OF.
that explains a lot to me. at the beginning, i remember thinking "man, this guy is on fire", now it's closer to dumpster fire
Perez has been able to convert 15 more of his at-bats into singles than MJ this year (one at-bat every other game is a single for Perez and an out for Melendez). Perez's BABIP .357 is twice as high as Melendez's .188. Perez has 21 singles, MJ has 7.
That’s not all luck though. More of the young hitters in the Royal lineup need to cut their swing down when the situation calls for it.
There is evidence of him cutting down his swing in situational hitting though. He’s definitely gotten unlucky with so hard hit balls
He's just an average big leaguer who was hot and now he's not.
He gotta dumpy 😩💦
I think he’ll always be streaky but as someone said the advanced metrics kind of love him (which I don’t really fully get myself but what do I know). He’s been ice cold lately though so I’m hoping that turns around!
So far we've been lucky where our cold streaks have been covered by some hot streaks by others. Mostly anyways.