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He's sooooo dreamy. And pretty good at baseball too.
Lots of interesting things happening with Swanson. Last year Swanson hit leadoff 13 times, second 20 times, fifth 10 times and then sixth/seventh 7 times each.
This year with no DH, Freedie Freeman is going to hit 3rd instead of 2nd (last year Freddie hit 2nd 26x and 3rd 32x) and so either Swanson or Albies will probably hit 2nd. Which one of them does it will have a pretty big impact on their value, with Ozuna hitting cleanup and TDA likely hitting 5th if he's playing. My money is on Swanson doing it more often than not, but Albies does seem more like a #2 hitter and hit 2nd in 10 of his 28 games last year.
Swanson's 2020: 264pa, played in all 60 games... 274/345/464, 10hr, 5sb, 49r, 35rbi, 8.3% walk rate, 26.9% K rate, .350 BABIP. That's a bit high for the K rate and a bit high for the BABIP too. His exit velo was in the 55th percentile, hard hit % in the 58th percentile... but a 77th percentile barrel rate and a 90th percentile sprint speed (!!!). Somehow the most similar player to Swanson in his hitting profile was Jeimer Candelario Link here
His projections are solid:
BATX .267-23hr-81rbi-87r-11sb
ATC: .256-23-76rbi-91r-12sb
He's got a little bit of a low AVG, speed thing going on that I don't think is what people expect to see from Swanson. But the sprint speed is interesting - if they let him run, maybe he gets closer to 15 steals. The K rate is concerning and he needs lots of ABs to build up his counting stats.
I think the .260-20-15sb range with really good runs and solid RBIs is a good projection.
Lots of interesting things happening with Swanson. Last year Swanson hit leadoff 13 times, second 20 times, fifth 10 times and then sixth/seventh 7 times each.
This year with no DH, Freedie Freeman is going to hit 3rd instead of 2nd (last year Freddie hit 2nd 26x and 3rd 32x) and so either Swanson or Albies will probably hit 2nd. Which one of them does it will have a pretty big impact on their value, with Ozuna hitting cleanup and TDA likely hitting 5th if he's playing. My money is on Swanson doing it more often than not, but Albies does seem more like a #2 hitter and hit 2nd in 10 of his 28 games last year.
Swanson's 2020: 264pa, played in all 60 games... 274/345/464, 10hr, 5sb, 49r, 35rbi, 8.3% walk rate, 26.9% K rate, .350 BABIP. That's a bit high for the K rate and a bit high for the BABIP too. His exit velo was in the 55th percentile, hard hit % in the 58th percentile... but a 77th percentile barrel rate and a 90th percentile sprint speed (!!!). Somehow the most similar player to Swanson in his hitting profile was Jeimer Candelario Link here
His projections are solid:
BATX .267-23hr-81rbi-87r-11sb
ATC: .256-23-76rbi-91r-12sb
He's got a little bit of a low AVG, speed thing going on that I don't think is what people expect to see from Swanson. But the sprint speed is interesting - if they let him run, maybe he gets closer to 15 steals. The K rate is concerning and he needs lots of ABs to build up his counting stats.
I think the .260-20-15sb range with really good runs and solid RBIs is a good projection.
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