Ozzie Albies In Midst Of Homer Drought
3 years agoAtlanta Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies went 0-for-3 with a strikeout in the team's 1-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday. The 25-year-old is off to a sluggish start to the 2022 season. He provided some power out of the gate. He hit six home runs from Opening Day to April 23, but he hasn't homered since. Across 36 games on the season, he's slashing .227/.287/.397 with the aforementioned six home runs and an additional six doubles. Albies has some concerning underlying stats, most notably a 23.7% hard-hit rate that ranks in the bottom 3% of the majors, down from his career-best 37.2% hard-hit rate last year. He also ranks in the 22nd percentile in average exit velocity (87.2 mph) and in the 24th percentile in barrel rate (3.8%). Albies has been a high-end fantasy producer dating back to 2018, so we'd bet on him figuring things out soon, but his Statcast metrics are certainly worth keeping an eye on alongside his surface numbers going forward.
Source: ESPN
Source: ESPN