We’re 17 games into what could legitimately be referred to as the Steven Moya era. This means that we’re overdue to evaluate Moya’s performance thus far and use that to predict what the entirety of his career will contain. Hey, it’s never failed us with previous iterations of large, power-hitting outfield prospects, right?
(Those of you wearing Brennan Boesch jerseys can stop yelling at me now.)
Anyway, it’s abundantly clear after 67 major league plate appearances that Moya’s plate discipline issues still exist. He has swung and missed at 15.6 percent of the pitches thrown to him, well above the American League average of 10 percent.