![]() 400, currently in the 86th percentile among that same set of regulars, per Statcast, but also. Walk and strikeout rates both below league average, albeit in a way where his BB/K is also below league average.A 32.1 sweet spot percentage (sweet spot refers to hitting balls with a relatively useful launch angle), also slightly below league average.A 10.8 degree average launch angle, currently a career-low, and also well below league average.An 88.1 mph average exit velocity, in line with his career mark (88.0), and still notably below league average: 37th percentile, when compared against the set of regulars that the Statcast display uses.Offensive inputs that make no senseĬoming into Thursday’s off-day, Rosario’s offensive Statcast data featured the following nonsense: ![]() With the explicit acknowledgment that none of this really means anything given that we’re just 13 games in to the 2023 season, let’s nonetheless take a look at a few ways in which Rosario’s 2023 has been fittingly bizarre so far. His production in his first 37 PAs of the season has been replacement-level, even after he hit a game-winning homer in the eighth to notch a sweep of the Reds on Wednesday night, but everything is so much weirder than that. Due to the tiny sample we’re working with, Rosario’s baseball existence looks even weirder than before. That brings us to the actual start of the 2023 so far, where things have once again, gone off the rails. Still, the Braves had him slated for a starter-y role, rotating through left field and DH with Marcell Ozuna and sharing time at DH with the team’s two catchers. He was essentially projected as replacement-level, no better than a random bench-filler from Triple-A or the waiver wire. which propelled him into a nightmarish 2022 season where he experienced some combination of: A) playing baseball while unable to see, due to a swollen right retina and blurred vision B) an arguably too-short rehab stint after eye surgery, leading to, C) pretty awful play even when returning in the latter part of the season, and therefore D) -1.1 fWAR in 270 PAs, tied for the ninth-worst mark among position players in MLB that season.Ĭoming into 2023, Rosario’s overall track record (2.4 fWAR/600 if you exclude 2022, or 2.0/600 if you do include it), combined with his recent performance (below-average full seasons in 20), and the horrendous nature of his 2022, even after he returned, really tanked his outlook. After that, he snagged a sizable-for-his-production two-year, $18 million deal with the Braves. (Fun trivia: you could also argue that Rosario made his Braves debut before being acquired, due to appearing in the second half of a suspended game that started before he was traded from Cleveland to Atlanta.) He then proceeded to put up 0.6 fWAR in 106 PAs, hit for the cycle on just five pitches, go berserk in the playoffs and get named NLCS MVP, and end up with a championship ring. When the Braves acquired Rosario at the Trade Deadline in 2021, he wasn’t even healthy, and didn’t debut in Atlanta until about a month after he was acquired. If there’s one thing that’s been consistent about his time in Atlanta, it’s that there really hasn’t been any consistency: it’s always been something with the outfielder, whether good or bad. Eddie Rosario has already had his share of ups and downs with the Atlanta Braves.
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