It is not a stretch to say that Joc Pederson did not have the 2021 he wanted. Honestly, given his part-time, xwOBA-underperforming 2020, his career has actually descended into somewhat of a rut, not that you’d know it through his hilarious on-field antics. Still, it’s been an unfortunate turnaround for a guy whose career to that point had featured almost entirely above-average seasons. Between 2015 and 2019, Pederson compiled 13.0 fWAR, 66th in the majors among position players in that span. Not elite or anything, but well above average, especially considering that his limitations against same-handed pitching and some injuries limited him to less than 80 percent of what a “full-timer” (600 PAs per season) would have accumulated in terms of playing time.
Pull the ball in the air, Joc
