Late last season, I wrote about Chris Taylor‘s batted ball and plate discipline profile and was confounded as to why he was struggling more in 2018 than he did in 2017.
Maybe his 2017 is going to be the outlier of his MLB career. Perhaps he’s more like the 2018 version of himself. That’s still a quality player (113 wRC+, 3.1 WAR), but this season, he seems to be regressing.
Sure, he hasn’t gotten nearly the amount of playing time he had been used to the last couple seasons, but a dive into his numbers show some worrying trends.