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Mike A. S.
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Who's the better leadoff hitter in baseball? George Springer or Charlie Blackmon.
Same here! He's awesome.Springer. One of my favorite players in baseball.
I don't like either at leadoff personally.
Power should be lower in the order, to me. And Springer does not run like he did when he came up.
Blackmon is a below average player below a mile of elevation.
Springer's baserunning has been a big disappointment at the major league level, but even then you still have a guy with a career .359 OBP and he has a lot of power. He might not be your traditional speedy leadoff guy, but he's easily one of their best hitters (and one of the better hitters in the AL). It would make sense to try to get him as many plate appearances as you can IMO. Altuve probably would make more sense at leadoff or at least in the #2 hole.
Has his baserunning been bad or just his basestealing? Because I would imagine that the latter is somewhat easy to fix by sending him less often.
Idk what the deal is. He stole 16 on 20 attempts in his 2nd season, but he was 14/31 in 2016-17. He was 88/104 in the minors.
I don't like either at leadoff personally.
Power should be lower in the order, to me. And Springer does not run like he did when he came up.
Blackmon is a below average player below a mile of elevation.
His career OBP is .314 on the road. It's .406 at home. .566 to .436 Slugging.I think Blackmon is better than he gets credit for away from Coors. If you take his numbers for just away games he is still 31st in BA, 41st OBP, and 38th in SLG. Not elite, but those are still solid numbers.
As a leadoff he is not my favorite, I always felt he would add more value hitting 3 with Arenado 4. Get a good lead off and LaMahieu at the 2 and Blackmon would add a lot of RBI's and have more value I think. Who else will the Rockies lead off with though?
Long story short Springer is better as a leadoff, but he is a similar type of leadoff as Blackmon and it is close.
Springer hits leadoff because Altuve doesn't like to, right?Springer's baserunning has been a big disappointment at the major league level, but even then you still have a guy with a career .359 OBP and he has a lot of power. He might not be your traditional speedy leadoff guy, but he's easily one of their best hitters (and one of the better hitters in the AL). It would make sense to try to get him as many plate appearances as you can IMO. Altuve probably would make more sense at leadoff or at least in the #2 hole.
His career OBP is .314 on the road. It's .406 at home. .566 to .436 Slugging.
I don't like OPS+, but Charlie Blackmon really can't like his road number. It's well below average.
Well Blackman is killing it this year so far, and the Rockies haven't even played 1 home game. In fact the Rockies already lead the Majors in HR's and yet haven't even played a game at Coors, so much for them only being good at home.
That is a very small sample size to make big claims on.