Brett Bateman Is Paying Early Dividends in His MLB Debut

[Brownie19]

3 hours ago, Olerud363.354 said:

Back in the day there was a guy called Brett Butler https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/butlebr01.shtml

Also a Brett.  Not a super low k rate (compared to the great hitters and the norms) but low.  

Don;t have stat casts data for him but I imagine a high ground ball rate, even spray chart, no pop-ups, super-fast. 

I don't think we are talking Kwan here.  We are talking a new type, new to this century I mean, a type that existed once but got extinct and maybe is going to come back,  Chandler Simpson, Batemen so far only the genius organizations have started to pick up on it.  

The key is speed and spraying the ground balls and no pop-ups. 

Thats actually a good comp.  Sparkplug at the top of the order.  

[hanton]

Batemans reads in CF aren't that great, has issues tracking the ball so his routes are a little off.  That will be hard to fix as it's mostly instincts.  

[Laika]

27 minutes ago, hanton said:

Batemans reads in CF aren't that great, has issues tracking the ball so his routes are a little off.  That will be hard to fix as it's mostly instincts.  

What

[hanton]

36 minutes ago, Laika said:

What

Exactly what I said, it also mentioned in his scouting report