Nick Castellanos can hit. He’s hit for quite a while in Major League Baseball. Over his last four seasons in Detroit he had posted an OPS+ of 118, with a best mark of 128 in the 2018 season. In a third of a season, 51 games, with the Chicago Cubs after being traded at the deadline, he posted a 151 OPS+ by hitting .321/.356/.646. Castellanos has stated that he felt the ballpark in Detroit severely hampered his power. His jump to Chicago certainly saw him hit for the kind of power in a third of a season that he had never shown before, giving some credence to what he was saying.
Reds notes on Nick Castellanos, Jose Siri, and Marcell Ozuna
