Man has Scott Schebler had a nice recent streak of games or what? Over his past four games, the guy is batting .400 with four home runs and eight RBIs. That's a nice streak. And Wednesday night was probably the best of all of them, as he went 2-4, 2 HR, 2 R, 2 RBI. Now yes, granted, all of his offense came from his two home runs, but that's what Schebler is good at: home runs. If you look at his numbers on the season though, it's a bit more disappointing, as he's batting just .186 on the year so far. Certainly his 23.1% strikeout rate doesn't help that, but Schebler has always had a strikeout problem. I don't necessarily think there's much here unless you're in a deep league or an NL-Only league, as I wouldn't expect Schebler to do much more than 20-25 home runs with a .240ish batting average. Nowadays, you can get that just about anywhere.
Let's take a look at some of the other performances from Wednesday's games:
Scott Scheduler…
Why do you think Zimmerman will come crashing down? His HR/Flyball rate will obvious drop from its current level of over thirty percent, but we’re not looking at anything less than his 54ish pace as a failure. His babip can drop 100 points, and he will still be around a .280 hitter.
If he keeps hitting the ball hard with his newly elevated launch angle he will still be a very productive player correct?
Well there’s a number of reasons. First off, the only thing keeping his average where it is is his absurdly high .438 BABIP. His plate discipline has not changed at all, in fact his chase rate is at a career high.
So maybe he hits more home runs than we thought thanks to his new launch angle thing. I still think he’s like a .255-.260 hitter. We give him 25 home runs on the year with 60 runs and 70 RBIs, sure, that’s better than we thought he’d do and that’s an ownable player, but it’s not the world beater that people seem to think he’s going to be.
It seems like people want him to put up 2009 or 2010 numbers all over again and that’s just entirely unrealistic. And I’ll be honest, I don’t want to be his owner when he’s on that streak that causes his batting average to drop 130 points.
I’m saying sell high now, because I think you can get a lot for him. More than he’s worth.
I own, and start, Leury Garcia