Its been a while since I made a post on here…. been sick and busy but I finally decided to look at something today. So I took a quick look at what Jay Bruce has done since he has come back from a few days off after being hit in the hand by a pitch.
The first thing I wanted to make a note of, is the patience that Jay has shown during the last week. I broke it down by pitch.
Jay has always been an aggressive hitter, but he is at his best when he waits for his pitch rather than going after the pitchers pitch. Since coming back he has taken more pitches overall than he has swung at. If he can keep that approach up, expect him to continue to hit the cover off of the ball.
Here is what its looked like from the catchers perspective over his current hit streak.
Not a lot of swings out of the zone and most of his hits have come on pitches in the middle or outer half of the plate. Granted there haven’t been a lot of pitches thrown inside to him over the time either.
Lets hope Jay can keep it up because if you can combine him and Joey Votto in the middle of the lineup, our offense might just have enough to get us over that 81 win mark to ensure a winning season.
nice job as usual, Doug.
Interesting that there seem to have been a number of called strikes that were clearly balls.
Also, unless BP stops sucking so bad in between them, I don’t think Votto and Bruce can carry the team.