more seriously, this went from a mildly off, very unlucky year to a big step back around the time of the back injury. Funny how the article doesn't mention the most obvious potential cause.
His contact percentage on swings at balls outside the strike zone is up from his career averages, too. Those are balls most hitters hit more softly than balls in the strike zone. He's also not swinging at as many strikes (z-swing %) as his career average, so perhaps contact on bad balls are a higher % of his total contact.
Don't ask me the solution.
