Lee Jeong-hoo (26, San Francisco Giants), former top hitter in Korean professional baseball, has played 30 major league games since 3rd and has a 0.250 batting average with only 2 home runs. On-base percentage (0.310), slugging percentage (0.328), and OPS (on-base percentage + slugging percentage, 0.638) are outside the top 100.
Lee Jeong-hoo, who has a trademark ability to make accurate contact, has a strikeout rate of just 7.8% among batters who have at bat more than 100 times this season, second in this section. The first place is last year’s batting champion, Luis Araez of the Miami Marlins (7.4%). The swing and miss rate, where a pitcher’s ball cuts through the air, is the lowest at 9%. Based on this eagle eye, he hit the ball at a distance of 95 miles (about 153 km) or more with 48 hard shots, ranking 15th in this category. The first place in this category is Shohei Ohtani of the LA Dodgers (64 times).
Lee Jeong-hoo takes a hit from the Boston Red Sox in the 4th inning. Lee Jeong-hoo gave up a double in this inning because he missed a batted ball in the sunlight with one out, but this defense overcame the danger of giving up a run. / USA TODAY Sports-Yonhap News
Lee Jeong-hoo is considered among the best in the Major League in terms of his pitching ability, base running, and throwing ability, but he has concerns. Barrel hits are rarely seen. A barrel ball is a ball that has a launch angle of 26 to 30 degrees and a speed greater than 98 miles per hour (about 158 km). If these two conditions are met, it is very likely that it will be in play and that it will be long. Lee Jeong-hoo’s barrel hit rate is only 2.9%. It is bottom of the Premier League. The reason is that the launch angle is low at 6.8 degrees. This means that the majority of batted balls are ground balls.
In other words, if Lee Jeong-hoo increases the launch angle in the current position, he can create an opportunity for conversion. Lee Jeong-hoo saw a ray of hope in the away game against the Boston Red Sox on the 3rd. Although he had no hits in 4 at-bats, all of his batted balls were sky-splitting outs. In his first at-bat in the top of the first inning, Lee Jeong-hoo hit starter Joshua Winkowski 155 km deep sinker. The launch angle of the batted ball is 29 degrees. The distance was 122m, which was longer than his teammate Mike Yastrzemski’s home run (119m) that day, but unfortunately he was caught by the center fielder. Lee Jeong-hoo sent fly balls with a launch angle of 24 to 41 degrees into the outfield during his at-bats in the 3rd, 6th, and 7th innings. Lee Jeong-hoo hit home runs in all three games of the three-game series against the Boston Red Sox, but was thwarted by the inconsistent spirit of Boston’s Fenway Park. As Lee Jung-hoo said, he only played 30 games in the big league. You cannot achieve much at once. However, since the signal that shows the collision status itself is not bad, if you succeed in increasing the launch angle, it can bring stronger winds.
2024-05-03 05:56:00
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