Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty ImagesThere’s a lot of swing and miss in Michael Taylor’s game.
The newest Royal, unveiled yesterday, would be the first to tell you that. And it’s fact.
From 2015 to 2020, among players with at least 1,500 plate appearances, Taylor’s strikeout rate of 31.2 percent ranks ninth. You can live with the strikeouts, right? This is 2020 after all. Three true outcomes and all of that action. But Taylor’s power output is the among lowest among those hitters with the 30 highest strikeout rates. His .158 ISO ranks 29th, just ahead of Tyler Flowers. In parts of seven seasons with the Nationals, Taylor has been an above league average hitter just once—in 2017 when he finished…
