Yesterday, new VEB writer Brendan_D (welcome aboard, Brendan, and, uh, nothing personal!) asked in his debut post if the Cardinals should be worried about Kolten Wong’s terrible start to 2018. Based not on Wong’s very bad slash line (.167/.242/.167 through Thursday) but rather on his very very bad batted-ball profile (a dribbler-to-the-right-side percentage of approximately “every time,” and a liner rate of approximately “Mike Mayers relief appearance”), Brendan answered the question like this:
Again, I realize that the sample size here is extremely small and Wong’s statistics through 11 games could be virtually meaningless but my concerns do not lie with what his results are, they lie with how he has gotten those results.