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A Deeper Dive into “Ted” Tucker

As I’m sure every person on this board knows, Kyle Tucker’s abysmal entry into the MLB last year did not inspire confidence. What may be surprising to some who didn’t read this article, is that he may have had a better year last year than many believe.

From a BABIP and xWOBA perspective, Tucker had the largest deviation between his expected results and the actual results in all of baseball. Which could be summarized simply as he had the worst luck in baseball in the small sample size.

During the previous discussions, one of our posters, Chillout17 had recommended that I do a deep dive of Kyle Tucker’s swing.