Baseball Prospectus | Daniel R. Epstein (subscription required): Anthony Volpe’s season started off on a promising enough note; however, the rookie shortstop is going through some growing pains of late. He leads the team by a substantial margin with 77 strikeouts and is last among qualified hitters with a 68 DRC+ (BP’s version of wRC+). With the amount of data available to big league teams, pitchers can identify and exploit weaknesses in a young hitter’s game much faster:
“His exit velocity and power numbers show that he can make loud contact when he gets his just-right pitch, but he has two massive holes in different areas of the strike zone.