A little more than a year ago I wondered if Steven Kwan might possess a hidden power. One that went beyond the boxscore and the advanced metrics to answer this question: “How did Steven Kwan post a league-average slugging percentage despite the lowest hard contact rate in all of baseball?”
I’d like to revisit that. But first:
A Note!
When suggesting that “...[C]urrent sabermetric models have a gap that cannot be easily filled,” I should have taken more time to say that the gap is so, so small. I meant to offer some work at the edge of established ideas that we tend to agree with.