Here are five things to watch when the Mets and Marlins play a three-game series starting Friday night in Miami.
The hardest-swinging player in Major League Baseball today — perhaps ever — is sporting a .230 batting average with a good-but-not-amazing eight home runs and .452 slugging percentage. The slowest-swinging player in MLB is hitting .301 with a .324 weighted on-base average, slightly higher (.321) than his hard-swinging counterpart. Take heart, San Diego Padre fans: at least your team is paying Luis Arraez the league minimum, rather than paying Giancarlo Stanton at least $128 million over the next four years. On Monday, Major League Baseball debuted the newest tool in its growing suite of advanced metrics under the "Statcast" brand: bat tracking leaders.
Ryan Weathers must feel like he booked a last minute ticket for the Titanic and was in the bathroom at the exact time they started filling up the lifeboats. Luis Arraez got traded to the Padres, and is now hitting .300 with them and helping them compete, and Weathers is still stuck in Miami getting the snot kicked out of him every 5 days on a team with no run support. Writing about the Marlins used to be fun. This team could have been great, they could have built something with all the pieces that made 2023 work, and now they're just struggling.
No | Player | P |
---|---|---|
76 | P | |
84 | P | |
11 | P | |
62 | P | |
56 | P | |
34 | P | |
32 | P | |
1 | P | |
50 | P | |
44 | P | |
49 | P | |
77 | P | |
58 | P | |
75 | P | |
61 | P |
No | Player | P |
---|---|---|
12 | C | |
20 | C |
No | Player | P |
---|---|---|
4 | 2B | |
2 | 2B | |
9 | 1B | |
7 | SS | |
13 | 3B | |
16 | SS | |
39 | 1B | |
14 | 3B |
No | Player | P |
---|---|---|
28 | LF | |
3 | CF | |
24 | LF | |
10 | LF | |
23 | RF |