He was one of the most aggressive hitters on the team, had some of the hardest shots all last season, but struck out a fair bit. He just went to the plate every time with the attitude that he was going to hit something and he did it often enough that he finished middle of the pack on the team.
This year, I was disappointed to see him hitting 11 on opening day. I figured something must have been wrong. I figured the coach was concerned that he'd seen the boy strike out on some pretty bad pitches. So, I worked with him on selectivity.
That took away a lot of his aggressiveness, but it really helped his on-base percentage. What I was hoping for was that as the season progressed, he'd get the old aggressiveness back, but also keep the new-found selectivity at the plate.
He went 0-fer the first handful of games. This is a chicken and egg thing. Was he hitting badly because he was at the bottom of the order? Or was he at the bottom of the order because he was hitting badly? Probably more that he was at the bottom because he wasn't hitting. Though baseball is largely mental and I think the other possibility is in there, too.
Once the season started, though, he really only had one way to dig himself out and that was to start hitting.
He has an 8 game hitting streak going, now. (Longest on the team.) He's hit his way to the middle of the pack. That's pretty much where he was last year, but I think he's got more in him this year.
The season stats look like this:
| Date | Player | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS | SO | PA | AB |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .525 | .548 | .600 | 1.148 | 2 | 45 | 40 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .514 | .600 | .541 | 1.141 | 3 | 46 | 37 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .513 | .558 | .692 | 1.250 | 4 | 45 | 39 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .486 | .538 | .800 | 1.338 | 9 | 39 | 35 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .474 | .535 | .474 | 1.009 | 2 | 44 | 38 |
| Season | The Boy | .440 | .563 | .480 | 1.043 | 8 | 32 | 25 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .429 | .459 | .457 | .917 | 6 | 40 | 35 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .412 | .462 | .500 | .962 | 5 | 39 | 34 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .387 | .424 | .387 | .811 | 4 | 35 | 31 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .324 | .395 | .353 | .748 | 1 | 38 | 34 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .296 | .457 | .296 | .753 | 6 | 37 | 27 |
| Season | XXXXXXX | .259 | .394 | .259 | .653 | 6 | 34 | 27 |
We'll have to take it one game at a time, but his bad-start is really killing his numbers. I like to crunch the stats for the last 10 games to get an idea who is heating up and who is cooling off.
The stats for the last 10 games show an even better picture. (Also, the 2 oldest games are 0-fer games. So, if he can have 2 good games coming up, he'll really have an impressive Last 10.)
| Date | Player | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS | SO | PA | AB |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .609 | .667 | 1.043 | 1.710 | 3 | 27 | 23 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .600 | .643 | .880 | 1.523 | 2 | 29 | 25 |
| Last 10 | The Boy | .556 | .636 | .611 | 1.247 | 5 | 22 | 18 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .542 | .577 | .583 | 1.160 | 2 | 29 | 24 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .480 | .567 | .480 | 1.047 | 1 | 30 | 25 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .500 | .520 | .591 | 1.111 | 3 | 25 | 22 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .423 | .464 | .423 | .887 | 1 | 28 | 26 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .381 | .435 | .429 | .863 | 4 | 26 | 21 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .364 | .417 | .364 | .780 | 1 | 24 | 22 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .300 | .391 | .300 | .691 | 5 | 25 | 20 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .300 | .364 | .300 | .664 | 1 | 23 | 20 |
| Last 10 | XXXXXXX | .304 | .360 | .348 | .708 | 1 | 25 | 23 |
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