I happened to look at his slugging percentage, and then worked back at previous regular CFs. Robles is at an impossibly-low .287, which compares in no way to Denard Span's .400+ in 2014 and, I think, even .2015. Didn't Span get hurt that season? Was that why the Nats dropped him? (It's been a long time...)
Other comparisons:
- Jim Busby, 1954: .389 SLG (Busby was a fine fielder but not a great hitter.)
- Albie Pearson, 1958: .358 SLG (Pearson, the Nats ROY, was 5-5 and 140 pounds.)
- Bob Allison, 1959: .482 SLG (Allison was a power-hitter, and anyone who walks around the Nats Park concourse can see him in a photo of the "Modern Murderer's Row")
- Lenny Green, 1960: .430 SLG (just to be fair to Robles, Green was a smaller, more typical hitter than Big Bob Allison)
- Don Lock, 1963: .338 SLG (Lock was the Expansion Senators' regular CF until...)
- Del Unser, 1969: .382 SLG (skipping the Year of the Pitcher, 1968.)
Skipping to the New Nationals, we have Willie Harris and Nyjer Morgan and etc.
Robles has to improve, doesn't he?
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