One of the many famous adages about baseball is that it’s a game of adjustments. It’s also a game of inches. And runs, though not in the way basketball is. That one is more literal. Yes, more than anything, baseball is a game of adages. Let’s focus on that first one I mentioned, about the adjustments, and how it relates to new Cleveland Indians first baseman Yonder Alonso.
Long a dead average hitter, 2017 was Alonso’s breakout season as he hit for power at an elite rate with the 17th highest isolated slugging (.