Look!! It’s another Ryan Mountcastle appreciation post! No surprise that Mountcastle has been attracting lots of notice lately…. I mean, where is he going to hide, in his purple velour jumpsuit and with his .403 average/1.103 OPS in the last 30 days?
But I thought it’d be fun to delve into the nitty-gritty, the why’s and wherefore’s of Mountcastle’s stunning July/August reinvention. For one thing, because it’s such a U-turn from his miserable June. And two, because he’s kept up his hot performance for an entire month. This is not just getting over the vertigo, or the “Toronto Effect.