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Originally Posted by zrog2000
I wonder if it's because pull hitters get penalized when teams shift a lot. I looked up his card and he is listed as a pull hitter. I remember some other disappointing cards were also pull hitters.
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I'll have to see if I can find a correlation to the type of hitter (Pull/Spray using league wide stats), but it hasn't made much of a difference on a small scale (my team) as my spray hitter (Cy Seymour) has been a bigger disappointment than Zimmerman, and Rod Carew (Pull) has been the only guy to hit consistently better than I expected at Perfect.
Though I did another study trying to find out performance and how it correlates to Avoid K (I didn't find anything significant to indicate low Avoid Ks would struggle more than High Avoid Ks), I may revisit that as well.
EDIT - Should mention that when I say they perform at or below expectations, that is considering that they are playing at a high level of competition but are performing higher or lower based on ratings when compared to each other (ie - Hitting worse than someone with lower ratings or better than someone with better ratings at the same level with equal competition).