Giancarlo Stanton has been having a weird season, which has been well-documented. It seems like every time I open his page on FanGraphs or Baseball Reference I come across something new. Today, the revelation was that he has been hitting very poorly against sliders. You could have likely come to this same conclusion just by watching most Yankees games this season, but the numbers really do help tell the story.
Stanton wasn’t always helpless against sliders. In fact, this is the first season since 2014 in which he has posted a negative pitch value against sliders.