http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/08/15/is-david-bote-for-real/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/08/15/is-david-bote-for-real/#comment-22935 Tue, 21 Aug 2018 03:45:43 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=24847#comment-22935 What is impressive about Bote is that he leads the major leagues in average exit velocity at 98.1, compared to 96.0 for Aaron Judge, who is second. Even more astounding is that he also leads in average generated velocity (in other words, the exit velocity minus the pitch velocity) at 9.8 (Joey Gallo is second at 8.1). Where he differs from these guys is in average launch angle, only 8.0 (Christian Yelich and Franchy Cordero are the most similar hitters). In short, while it is a small sample size, it appears that Bote is a line drive hitter with power.

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