Chance Sisco and The Future

[Tony-OH]

50 minutes ago, OrioleDog said:

Sisco profiled here as one of the league's biggest gainers in FB Pull% last year.

https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/2019-review-fb-pull-surgers/

His track from ~11% to ~22% almost exactly Juan Soto's directionally, except for the, ummm, power thing.  He was a stark opposite field guy previously, so the doubling just gets him to within shouting distance of league average.

Yeah, it was pretty clear that Sisco was trying to pull the ball more for power. That approach has hurt his average and caused him to strike out more. He was a much better all fields hitter, but I guess baseball is getting away from that approach and wants dingers, so dingers he will try for!

[Legend_Of_Joey]

7 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Yeah, it was pretty clear that Sisco was trying to pull the ball more for power. That approach has hurt his average and caused him to strike out more. He was a much better all fields hitter, but I guess baseball is getting away from that approach and wants dingers, so dingers he will try for!

Think his increase in "pull hitting" could be attributed to him cheating a bit at the plate and starting his swing earlier (also hence the strike outs), vs. letting the ball travel more and going opposite field?

[Tony-OH]

3 minutes ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

Think his increase in "pull hitting" could be attributed to him cheating a bit at the plate and starting his swing earlier (also hence the strike outs), vs. letting the ball travel more and going opposite field?

I've always thought he cheated on fastballs to offset his less than stellar bat speed.

[esmd]

I'm pretty bearish on Sisco at this point.  He's below average defensively by all accounts, so he needs to hit, and hit well, to be a player of any import to a good team.  I'm not getting the sense he'll do that, but we'll see how 2020 goes.