While my colleagues have attempted to determine the root cause of his issues, I’m more curious as to how frequently someone has cratered in this fashion.Given his level of consistency and the depths to which his numbers have fallen this year, there are two main questions that spring to mind:
1. How frequently do batters experience such a sharp ISO decline from an established level?
2. How frequently do batters strike out more than 40 percent of the time in a full year? …
UPDATE: More on Adam Dunn from David Pinto:
As a follow up to Bill Chuck’s previous post on Adam Dunn of the Chicago White Sox, a reader asked to look at his struggles against lefties. There are two major changes that help account for his poor performance. …
Other White Sox links: J.J. says Viciedo will help but he won’t save the offense, James doesn’t sound very enthusiastic after attending Friday’s game and recaps the past week, Fangraphs’ Eric Seidman says player milestones, like 500 home runs, might not result in hall of fame election, and Steve Stone says the 6-man rotation isn’t good for Gavin Floyd.
And a couple tweets from Brett Ballantini on Dayan Viciedo inside:
Dayan's July date to delay his FA works perfectly; it gives Juan just enuf rope to hang himself & gives #WhiteSox another full yr of Viciedo—
Brett Ballantini (@CSNChi_Beatnik) June 26, 2011
Dayan had better get called up "coincidentally" on/around July 3, otherwise how do #WhiteSox answer for their howlingly pathetic offense?—
Brett Ballantini (@CSNChi_Beatnik) June 26, 2011
