The 2015 season could probably have gotten off to a worse start for Reds top position prospect Jesse Winker, but it certainly could have gone better. Over the first two months of the season, the outfielder hit .229/.343/.314 in 181 plate appearances for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos. He walked 24 times in that span and only had 27 strikeouts, but his power was way down and the ball simply wasn’t finding the outfield grass often.
On May 15th I looked back at his struggles in Pensacola for subscribers at my site (and if you aren’t subscribing over there, think about it – it helps support all that I do) and found that his groundball rate was through the roof.