DRaysBay · Oct 17, 2018
The 2018 Rays prioritized contact over power and it worked
One of the best parts of the offseason is it allows us fans to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. Baseball provides one of the best Bigger Picture scenes across sports, with 162 games and hundreds of thousands of individual batter-vs-pitcher to analyze once the dust is settled.
Over the course of the offseason, we’ll be looking at some trends among individual Rays players, but let’s start zoomed out as far as we can today: looking at team-wide trends for the Rays in 2018.
We’ll cover a pair of related offensive trends today before getting to pitching and defense later this week.
Contact over Power