The 2024 China Professional Baseball Official Warm-up Tournament officially ended on the 27th. The “new classmates” of the secondary vocational school, the Taiwan Steel Eagles, ranked fifth with a record of 3 wins, 1 and 6 losses. The Eagles’ first first-team season will also begin this week. Officially debuted today. There were many highlights in the official warm-up game. Among them, Zeng Ziyou, the “No. 1 pick” in 2022, scored 16 hits in the official warm-up game and became the hit king in the warm-up game.
Hot performance in warm-up match
Looking back on last year, Zeng Ziyou played 110 official games. In addition to official warm-up games and regular games, he also participated in the Future Star Invitational Tournament and the Winter League, which was resumed after 4 years. Head coach Hong Yizhong believes that Zeng Ziyou’s basic hitting skills are pretty good. He also said: “What he lacks now is strength and experience, so we let him continue to compete.” Zeng Ziyou will play in the regular season of the second team in 2023 In 78 games, he posted a batting average of 297% and an OPS+ of 103. Among them, he became the hitting king of the regular season with 89 hits.
This season, the secondary vocational school will return to the six-team competition situation, and the pre-season warm-up matches have also attracted special attention from fans. Unexpectedly, Zeng Ziyou, who was just about to welcome his first first-place match in his career, actually performed very well in the warm-up match. In the warm-up match, Zeng Ziyou played a total of 9 games, scoring 16 hits and hitting three goals in 35 games. 0.457/0.486/0.457, OPS+ as high as 168, and also set the record for most one-run hits in a secondary school warm-up game, becoming the hottest hitter in the pre-season.
Excellent pioneer candidate
Throughout the 2023 season, Zeng Ziyou played the first pitch in the official warm-up game and the regular season of the second team. He only scored 3 hits in 39 games in total, so he basically focused on the second pitch. However, in this year’s warm-up match, 27 of Zeng Ziyou’s 37 seats were assigned to the first pitch. This also shows that the coaching staff intends to put him as the team’s pioneer, and Zeng Ziyou’s several characteristics are quite suitable. to take on this role.
If we don’t look at the small sample data of short-term games, we will only select the data of Zeng Ziyou’s 78 games in the secondary secondary corps last year. The first thing to mention is his wOBA (weighted on-base percentage) of 323%. wOBA is a reflection of Considering a player’s slugging performance and on-base ability, and giving each hit and on-base event the correct value weight, Zeng Ziyou’s data is slightly higher than the league average. In addition to being able to get on base stably, Zeng Ziyou’s extremely low swing rate and strikeout rate also allow him to deal with pitchers in the strike zone, with a Whiff% (swing rate) of 11% and a K% (strikeout rate) of 10.7%. ) in the league with PR values of 91 and 84 respectively. It can be said that in terms of these two statistics, Zeng Ziyou is among the top 20% of players in the league. He also had 9 stolen bases in a single season, ranking first on the team.
Extended reading of wOBA: New edition. Advanced data – Strike (wOBA and its derived data)
Zeng Ziyou’s 2023 Second Army regular season PR list, photo/Wild Ball Revolution
Short guns and defensive stability?
However, the most criticized thing about Zeng Ziyou from before the draft to now is his “power”. He was not primarily a “gunner” in high school, and it is even more obvious when he enters professional baseball. In 110 games last year, Zeng Ziyou only hit three home runs, and his average ISO (pure slugging percentage) in all events was only 0.088. Although he hit 16 hits in the official warm-up game this season, the interesting thing is that all of them were short-range singles. However, hitting coach Louis is not worried about this. He believes that Zeng Ziyou’s hitting mechanism is very good, and the team’s plan for him is to maintain his current form. He said: “As long as you maintain correct training and accumulate experience , with the strength and experience in place, there will be more long-distance hits in the future.”
In addition to the long game, Zeng Ziyou guarded the guerrilla defense zone during the regular season of the Second Army last year, making 20 turnovers and a fielding rate of 0.942. In the official warm-up match, there were 2 turnovers in a single game. In the First Army Arena, where the competition is more intensive and the pressure is greater, Zeng Ziyu must show a more stable performance to help Taipei Steel hold the center line.
Can Zeng Ziyu maintain his hot performance in the first team season? Picture/Taishang Eagles official FB
Data Sources:Chinese Professional Baseball official website、baseball revolution
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2024-03-29 03:46:14
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