Last year, Moya had difficulty hitting with a combined slash of .243/.283/.431/ with Triple-A Toledo and with Single-A+ Lakeland Flying Tigers. When he was called up to the Tigers in September, he batted a slash of .182/.280/.273. His OPS in the minor leagues in 2015 was .714, but was only .553 in the majors.
Whatever happened to Steven Moya’s bat appears to have been remedied.
Since his call-up to fill in for the injured J.D. Martinez, he had a slash of .286/.300/.490 with an OPS of .790 prior to the game against the Mariners. Of course, his line will improve dramatically with the three hits he had against Hisashi Iwakuma.