I'm at the point where I'm a little concerned about Correa. He has a track record of being good, and I usually don't get concerned when guys have that. But he isn't hitting the ball with any authority since coming back. Almost all of his outs a poorly stuck. His productive AB's are walks or soft singles. It could be a mere slump, and nothing more, but when a player of his talent level has only 2 XBH in almost a month you start to fear something may be bothering him. Then again he could go ape s**t in the coming weeks and this concern will look stupid.
Watch the 2017 post season again. You don't win anything without the superb performances he had outside those two games you state, like his performance in game 2 vs the red sox, 1,2,6,7 of the Yanks. I know some like to argue for the sake of arguing but Altuve having a "mediocre" post season and only good in 2 games has to be one of the craziest things since Spanoulis will carry us.
Don't worry, honestly. He is slumping hard, but he was out for a long time. To me, his back is clearly not 100%, as shown by his decreased bat speed. He is healthy enough to play but isn't really back to himself yet. But he is a superstar, and he'll get there. I think he should definitely be getting more rest days to make sure he is healthy.
I like that people only remember 5 of Altuve's 7 HR's when discussing his mediocre postseason stats last year and ignore that he had 8 multi-hit games, including a pair of 2-1 wins over the Yankees (where he didn't hit any HRs). But it's certainly true that if you take out all his good games, he was bad in the postseason last year.
As long as Correa's back is solid, he will turn it around. He is very much a timing and feel hitter, so his struggles are not a complete surprise. He has a good 20 games left to turn it around and I expect he will.
He draws walks because he doesn't swing the bat and the pitchers will throw 4 balls every once-in-a-while. He's behind in the count with runners on constantly (twice last game he watched mashable first pitches with men on base) When he swings he's feeling for the ball and not attacking it like we're used to seeing. Crane needs to pay for an optometrist. (slightly kidding) BIG ETA: now I'm not sure if we're talking about Altuve or Correa, I'm talking about the latter
Correa has always had that tendency though. Sometimes it seems like he’s being deliberate enough to force a scouting report adjustment, then he flips the script and swings away early. But how many taking of pitches does it take to get to that stretch?
It’s an interesting debate because on paper Altuves World Series stats were mediocre. However the clutchness of his World Series hits in pivotal games 2 and 5 was as trump would say “yuuuuge”. Ditto for Brian McCann. His postseason numbers were flat out poor but he had some crucial game turning hits late in the Yankees series when our backs were against the wall. The homer in game 5 WS obviously wound up being a critical run. Everyone chipped in at some point last postseason save for reddick.
Correa hits better on 0-1 and following counts than he does on first pitch or 1-0 and following counts.
I know, so when there's men on base why don't you go ahead and tell him to swing the ****ing bat at strikes. If you don't mind.
