Troy Patterson of Yawkey Way Academy
has a very interesting/disturbing post on Lars' batted ball data:
Based on his batted ball data, we can surmise his swing mechanics have suffered. He has had a 54.3% ground ball rate across all minor league levels. This means he's very limited in how many balls he's putting in the air. Since your home run power is a factor of HR/FB%, hitters that tend to hit a large amount of groundballs miss the opportunity to crush fly balls out of the ball parkAdd to that his avg defense and I'm jumping in the Tony Rizzo Bandwagon!