If you have a penchant for looking at traditional batting lines with no regard for context, you may think Pete Crow-Armstrong is a bad hitter. There’s certainly nothing about his .204/.249/.332 slash line to indicate he’s been successful over 229 plate appearances this season. Even looking at a mildly esoteric number like his .128 ISO tells you PCA ranks 211th out of 301 MLB hitters with at least 200 PAs this season when it comes to raw power.
But if you start poking around under the hood a little bit, maybe just at the bleeding edge of cherry-picking, you’ll see things starting to look better.