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What Willy Adames’s breakout can teach us about baseball

Let me preface this article by saying that of the hundred-plus articles I have written here at DRaysBay, probably 99% of them have a statistical tilt. If anything, I sometimes lean too heavily on statistics.

I think that’s what a lot of Rays fans are going to start doing in the case of Adeiny Hechavarria and Willy Adames.

The Rays DFA’d Hechavarria on August 1, symbolically handing the shortstop position over to the man of the hour, Adames.

In the admittedly tiny sample of games since, Adames is slashing .