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Ryan Flaherty is hitting .276/.364/.517 so far this season. On the one hand, it is only 21 games and 66 PA, so obviously, a very small sample size. On the other hand, the early part of the season has always been Flaherty's kryptonite. His stats through June 2 in prior seasons:

2012: .148/.175/.204 (59 PA)

2013: .152/.233/.248 (117 PA)

2014: .206/.280/.289 (107 PA)

At a minimum, Flaherty has avoided putting himself in an early season statistical hole from which it is impossible to completely dig out of. This has a chance to be a decent offensive season for him thanks to his good start. I feel like he is seeing the ball better this year and isn't as vulnerable to swinging at bad pitches.

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Come on now. 350 BABIP (vs career .268) despite the fact that his LD% is below his average (and his career average is already not good). His K% is actually up. Hard hit is in line with career as is swinging strike.

Nothing to see here but a small, small sample.

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Ryan Flaherty is hitting .276/.364/.517 so far this season. On the one hand, it is only 21 games and 66 PA, so obviously, a very small sample size. On the other hand, the early part of the season has always been Flaherty's kryptonite. His stats through June 2 in prior seasons:

2012: .148/.175/.204 (59 PA)

2013: .152/.233/.248 (117 PA)

2014: .206/.280/.289 (107 PA)

At a minimum, Flaherty has avoided putting himself in an early season statistical hole from which it is impossible to completely dig out of. This has a chance to be a decent offensive season for him thanks to his good start. I feel like he is seeing the ball better this year and isn't as vulnerable to swinging at bad pitches.

Ryan was in a good groove after playing regularly last season and he has managed to carry it over.

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I realize this may not be seeing very much but I'd rather see him out there regularly now instead of Cabrera while our starters are hurt.

He'll get his chance to prove himself, yet again, but i'll admit to being skeptical until we get to 150-200 PA.

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Ryan Flaherty is hitting .276/.364/.517 so far this season. On the one hand, it is only 21 games and 66 PA, so obviously, a very small sample size. On the other hand, the early part of the season has always been Flaherty's kryptonite. His stats through June 2 in prior seasons:

2012: .148/.175/.204 (59 PA)

2013: .152/.233/.248 (117 PA)

2014: .206/.280/.289 (107 PA)

At a minimum, Flaherty has avoided putting himself in an early season statistical hole from which it is impossible to completely dig out of. This has a chance to be a decent offensive season for him thanks to his good start. I feel like he is seeing the ball better this year and isn't as vulnerable to swinging at bad pitches.

I hope this is the real Ryan.

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His 2 strike approach seems better. Definitely shortening up there. Not pulling the ball and rolling over as much. I always thought he had decent plate discipline and would draw walks. His main issue was the CH/Splitter, which he's still getting a lot of it would appear, but perhaps handling better. Too early to say, but I'm not surprised he'd continue to improve to some degree with more ML AB's. I agree with Ripken that I would not be surprised to see him get a few solid years somewhere as a second baseman down the line.

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His 2 strike approach seams better. Definitely shortening up there. Not pulling the ball and rolling over as much. I always thought he had decent plate discipline and would draw walks. His main issue was the CH/Splitter, which he's still getting a lot of it would appear, but perhaps handling better. Too early to say, but I'm not surprised he'd continue to improve to some degree with more ML AB's. I agree with Ripken that I would not be surprised to see him get a few solid years somewhere as a second baseman down the line.

Maybe Coolbaugh's influence?

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Come on now. 350 BABIP (vs career .268) despite the fact that his LD% is below his average (and his career average is already not good). His K% is actually up. Hard hit is in line with career as is swinging strike.

Nothing to see here but a small, small sample.

I agree with this, but hard hit balls and combined LD/GB rate are in line with norms or higher than norm, he's hitting more to the opposite field, swinging at significantly less balls out of the zone, his walk rate is up 4% while his K rate is only up 1%. There are a lot of good indicators there. What it all means longer term is another question though.

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I agree with this, but hard hit balls and combined LD/GB rate are in line with norms or higher than norm, he's hitting more to the opposite field, swinging at significantly less balls out of the zone, his walk rate is up 4% while his K rate is only up 1%. There are a lot of good indicators there. What it all means longer term is another question though.

I'm still a tad dubious even those minor gains are real, but at least is possible. He might now be a .250 hitter with a walk rate of 9% and a K% of 24. Add a little pop and you have a serviceable bat at middle infield, as opposed to embarrassing.

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SSS for sure but he has changed his approach. He definitely doesn't seem as pull happy as in previous years. Coolbaugh seems to have made an impression on Flaherty, Joseph, and Schoop (before he went down), to use the middle of the field more. Unfortunately, Pearce has gone the opposite way (pun intended), and Jones, seemingly, hasn't driven a ball to RF all year.

So Coolbaugh gets all the credit and no blame? :)

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