Would. You. Just. Run. Already.
Marte is moving to CF for 2019, at least that's the plan right now. Maybe it will help him realize he's fast. He was 81st in sprint spreed at 28.7 FT/Sec last year, tied with Ozzie Albies and 0.1 ahead of Starling Marte.
2018 stats: 153 games, 580 PA, 260/332/437, 14 HR, 6 SB, 68 R, 59 RBI. A pretty good 9.3% walk rate and a good 13.6% K rate. Hits too many pop-ups but given that he has an overall groundball lean, and as mentioned above, he's pretty fast... he should be able to do better than a .282 BABIP. His overall exit velo isn't great and given the humidor, he might be at his power ceiling. (150th in overall average exit velocity, though he did have a max of 115.1 which is pretty high, specifically 26th among all hitters).
Steamer projects 139 games, .280, 13 HR and 9 steals.
I want to believe, but where will the breakout come from? He's being picked 218th in ADP so he can be had relatively cheap. If he can hit .285 instead of .260 he will be a heck of a lot more valuable even if he still stays at 15 HR and single digit steals.
Marte is moving to CF for 2019, at least that's the plan right now. Maybe it will help him realize he's fast. He was 81st in sprint spreed at 28.7 FT/Sec last year, tied with Ozzie Albies and 0.1 ahead of Starling Marte.
2018 stats: 153 games, 580 PA, 260/332/437, 14 HR, 6 SB, 68 R, 59 RBI. A pretty good 9.3% walk rate and a good 13.6% K rate. Hits too many pop-ups but given that he has an overall groundball lean, and as mentioned above, he's pretty fast... he should be able to do better than a .282 BABIP. His overall exit velo isn't great and given the humidor, he might be at his power ceiling. (150th in overall average exit velocity, though he did have a max of 115.1 which is pretty high, specifically 26th among all hitters).
Steamer projects 139 games, .280, 13 HR and 9 steals.
I want to believe, but where will the breakout come from? He's being picked 218th in ADP so he can be had relatively cheap. If he can hit .285 instead of .260 he will be a heck of a lot more valuable even if he still stays at 15 HR and single digit steals.
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