Joey Votto (struggling)

by High Heater on Apr 21, 2007 5:46 PM EDT

at what i thought was the best 1B prospect in the game and a good bet to go 25-20 in the bigs has struggled in the early going this year

his line:

49AB's 7R 8H 1HR 7RBI 10BB 17K 1SB 2CS .328.286.614
is this early going struggles? is he overmatched in AAA? can any cincy homers sign in and give some type of explanation for a good looking 1B prospect.

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Not a Reds Fan

but it's still too early to worry. If he had 3 bad weeks in June, you'd never hear about. Since it happened at the start of the season, it gets magnified. Mahalo

Matt

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by WayneCampbell05 on Apr 21, 2007 6:46 PM EDT reply actions

Way too early to worry

Its 49 ab's. Btw 10 walks is nice. No reason reason to have much concern.

by yacck23 on Apr 21, 2007 7:20 PM EDT reply actions

+1

I saw that too, not bad, and only 17 k's (if I remember seeing)... Could be worse.

by ChrisRef19 on Apr 22, 2007 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions

same as last year

Votto started slow last year and was considered a flop after a less than stellar previous year. He turned it on in the summer and became a great prospect again. Patience is rather obviously in order.

by rcobeen on Apr 21, 2007 7:24 PM EDT reply actions

Joey has been rather unlucky

all across the board. Compared to last year his ground balls are going for hits 8% fewer, his fly balls are going for hits 12% fewer and his line drives are going for hits 40% fewer. Joey is hitting line drives, and they just arent falling for hits yet. only 39% of his line drives have gone for hits this year, and last year that number was 79%. Hits are going to start falling for him, he just has been ridiculously unlucky. I normalized his numbers if his GB, FB and LD's were going for hits at the same rate they were last year and he would be hitting .282/.429/.435 if all the extra hits he had only went for singles. It is a case of a real small sample and some bad luck playing a big part.

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by dougdirt on Apr 22, 2007 2:52 AM EDT reply actions