Can you find a player comp in any of your worlds for a player like this?

https://www.whatifsports.com/hbd/Pages/Popups/PlayerRatings.aspx?pid=8349657

Is his poor performance strictly because of Portland, or are those splits just too hard to overcome?

I had a disastrous time with Player Profile: Maximo Pisciotta back when he was even better (98-90-52-62-65)

A RH hitter with a poor vR split is almost always going to struggle.

Archie Danks is my 1B in Seattle. The highs are high (ROY, MVP finalist last season); the lows are low (.200-ish BA his other two seasons.) But even hitting .200, he still drives in runs, hits homers, and steals bases.

I just don't see how a player with 90s contact, power and an 84 eye can struggle.

I think in the old days they'd say he "can't hit the curve."

Posted by Knudervalve on 6/19/2017 7:06:00 PM (view original):
I just don't see how a player with 90s contact, power and an 84 eye can struggle.

A long time ago, and I forget exactly where, I had heard hitters splits (within the context of HBD) described as the ability to drive the ball.

So you can have a high contact rating, but coupled with a low split, you're going to make weak contact (easy grounders or pop flies) which are more likely to become outs. A high split, you'll be making hard contact, hitting hard ground balls or line drives, which are more likely to become hits.

All the hitters ratings work together and modify each other.

Posted by tecwrg on 6/19/2017 7:51:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Knudervalve on 6/19/2017 7:06:00 PM (view original):
I just don't see how a player with 90s contact, power and an 84 eye can struggle.

A long time ago, and I forget exactly where, I had heard hitters splits (within the context of HBD) described as the ability to drive the ball.

So you can have a high contact rating, but coupled with a low split, you're going to make weak contact (easy grounders or pop flies) which are more likely to become outs. A high split, you'll be making hard contact, hitting hard ground balls or line drives, which are more likely to become hits.

All the hitters ratings work together and modify each other.

I totally and completely understand that all ratings work together and modify each other. But I think we can consider players with ratings in the 90s as having an elite level skill. Having elite power and contact, coupled with plus-plus eye should help to mitigate those splits to a degree. But maybe I don't know anything, which is also possible.

93 Contact / 92 Power / 86 Eye are indeed major league elite, or maybe a little off it. (I'd consider 95+ "elite" power, and even a drop of a few points in power has a noticeable effect IMO.)

But 61 vsL/44 vsR, those are splits comparable to 19 and 20 yr old prospects I have in High A and even Low A. Nowhere near big league skills.

Of course sometimes you get lucky with a RH, with 50 vR and 54 eye, who absolutely crushed the ball. He has a high temper though so maybe he was just ****** off at the plate.... Placido Alvarez

He'll improve... remember, he hasn't had those ratings his entire ML career, since you (reasonably) jumped him to the bigs quickly.

I'd place him at about .250/.340/.510 in a neutral park, with wide platoon splits. In POR that'll look more like .225/.315/.450, which isn't all that far off what he's doing except for the SLG... honestly, the only thing I don't get is his lack of power. My bet is that comes around.

Rest him against tough RHP. He'll want 20-25 games a season of rest anyway... basically, any time the opposition SP has a VsR > 85 or maybe even 80, rest him.

It was a different era of HBD (this World actual has pretty distinct eras of offensive production) where there was more offense than we have in this World now, but Curt Falk - https://www.whatifsports.com/hbd/Pages/Popups/PlayerStats.aspx?pid=1219112

94 Contact; 98 Power; 67 vLH; 53 vRH; 76 Eye

Willie Butera: https://www.whatifsports.com/hbd/Pages/Popups/PlayerRatings.aspx?pid=7046492

I had always planned on platooning him but despite the terrible Right handed split and batting eye, he has become a very productive hitter that I still bat him 2nd against righties. He's a player I wouldn't be upset if he struggled because it would be understandable

Art Houck is a similar hitter to that guy except his elite vLH makes him top 5 vs LHP in the league. You're guy is still developing though and should be a good platoon vs. lefties. Tough to get a platoon at pick 1.1 though.

A position player at 1.1 should have elite vRH and preferably be a lefty or switch hitter.

Posted by brianplath on 6/20/2017 10:21:00 AM (view original):
Art Houck is a similar hitter to that guy except his elite vLH makes him top 5 vs LHP in the league. You're guy is still developing though and should be a good platoon vs. lefties. Tough to get a platoon at pick 1.1 though.

A position player at 1.1 should have elite vRH and preferably be a lefty or switch hitter.

Yea his splits dropped pretty poorly after picking him. My scouting wasn't maxed when I got him, so I got "fuzzied."