Charlie Morton and the Braves take on Merrill Kelly in the Diamondbacks out in the desert on Friday night in the first game of a three-game set. Here’s the Statcast graphic.
You can see from said Statcast graphic that the Diamondbacks don’t look super-intimidating when put in offensive inputs terms, but many of their bats have made a mockery of their inputs so far, and as a team, they have the biggest xwOBA outperformance in baseball, along with the player (Geraldo Perdomo) with the biggest individual outperformance.
We’ll see how Charlie Morton fares tonight — will he struggle with lefties and being left out there too long, or will he rein it in and tamp down the Snakes’ so-far-very-effective offense?