Tatis Jr., Luzardo, O. Lopez, Vásquez, L. Hicks

Tatis Jr. suffering a power outage … After hitting 20 or more HR in each of his MLB seasons aside from the COVID shortened 2020 season, it’s quite surprising to see Fernando Tatis Jr. (OF, SD) enter May without a HR. What is going on?

Year	PA	HR/SB	BA/xBA	bb%/ct%	GB/LD/FB	h%	HctX	PX/xPX	Brl%	HR/F	Spd/SB%/SBO
2023	635	25/29	.257/.266	8/75	47/19/33	30	128	115/119	11%	17%	93/87%/23%
2024	438	21/11	.276/.275	7/75	46/20/33	31	121	132/119	15%	20%	102/78%/14%
2025	691	25/32	.268/.265	13/78	48/17/33	30	122	105/108	11%	15%	131/82%/20%
2026	139	0/9	.261/.222	10/72	50/23/26	36	136	41/105	13%	0%	162/81%/27%

The skills aren’t that different from what we’re accustomed to seeing:

• He’s still making lots of hard contact, as evidenced by Brl%, a 99th percentile HH% (62%). However, his launch angle has...

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