After having abysmal discipline last season and to start this season Jose Altuve is back to walking again. Since mid June his walk, K, and whiff rates are more in line with his previous post pandemic numbers. Generally terrible plate discipline was the main cause of his struggles and, at least for now, it seems to be corrected. One other curious aside from perusing his statcast page. His bat speed was down around 68 MPH the first 2 months of the season, but has now recovered back to his "normal" 70 MPH. The bat speed data only goes back to late 23 so I don't know what "normal" really is for him career wise, but even with the small sample we have his bat speed was clearly low to start the season for some reason.
