Evan Longoria has become a Good Giant

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images.254/.325/.437, 20 HR, 69 RBI, 101 wRC+, 2.0 fWAR

I don’t remember how many times last year I thought to myself, “If only Evan Longoria walked like he used to, this would be fine.” In between a slow start and a broken hand during the first year of his Giants tenure, Longoria hit for adequate power, but he continued a worrying trend of putting up walk rates that were lower than the year before.

Through the first month of the 2019 campaign, he looked like he’d lower his walk rate yet again, but Longoria turned things around. On the year, he walked 8.5 percent of the time, his highest rate since 2013. It’s hard to pinpoint why the walk rate shot back up. Longoria’s…