Luis Arraez of the Marlins is hardly a household name, but if he keeps up his current pace at the plate, that will change.
The once-floundering Marlins are the hottest team in the National League, and their offense is being led by the hottest hitter in the game, who’s cultivating talk of MLB history by making an early run at the hallowed mark of .400.
“It is an honor when I see that number on the scoreboard, but as I’ve said before, it is not impossible,” Arraez said in Spanish after Tuesday’s game. “Things are going well for me and we are also winning, which is what is most important.” “He has incredible bat-to-ball skills, and his hands are also incredibly quick,’’ Kyle Higashioka said this week.
Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka marvels at Luis Arraez’s bat-to-ball skills and ability to foil game plans.“I had pretty much written it off as impossible in today’s league,” Higashioka said. “There’s so much information about how to get guys out, you wouldn’t think it could be done. It’s early, but the fact he’s in the mix, that it might be possible, is incredible.”
Some of Arraez’s advanced metrics are pretty pedestrian. He has an average exit velocity of 88 mph and a hard-hit percentage of 22.2 percent, which ranks in the bottom 2 percent of the league, as well as being a career low,It’s not due to the shift ban: Arraez faced a shift just 2.2 percent of the time last season.His whiff percentage — his percentage of swings and misses — is 6.8 percent, by far the lowest in the majors. Not surprisingly, his strikeout rate of 4.
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