CINCINNATI -- In the span of 46 games, Adam Duvall has fundamentally changed his identity as a hitter.
The Reds outfielder burst onto the scene in his first 59 games, batting .258 with 18 homers and a .589 slugging percentage, enough to earn him a National League All-Star bid in his first full season.
But underlying those numbers was an anomaly -- Duvall walked in just 3.2 percent of his at-bats. In the modern era, no qualifying hitter has ever posted a walk rate that low while posting a slugging percentage as high as Duvall's -- only Dante Bichette in 1995 and Joe DiMaggio in his rookie season in '36 had a walk rate below 4 percent and a slugging percentage above .