On this week’s edition of This Week in Rays Baseball, the excellent Neil Solondz-hosted podcast that comes out weekly and looks into Rays happenings, Solondz sat down with Dave Wills, Andy Freed, and Brian Anderson for their final round-table discussion of the 2017 regular season. It was an interesting discussion, as they always are, but one mini-exchange with BA made my analytical ears perk up:
“On the flip side, the home run dependency… If you want to be a team that can occasionally manufacture runs, you have to have an approach at the plate.