It’s been nearly three weeks since I looked into the early struggles of Edwin Encarnacion immediately following his trade to the Yankees. As of July 7, the league’s home run leader had managed just a .547 OPS with a 31.9 percent strikeout rate over his first three weeks with his new team.
In my post, we came to the conclusion that Encarnacion’s noticeably higher strikeout rate and an opposite field percentage of nearly 30 percent showed that the slugger might have been hunting for Yankee Stadium’s short porch in right field, despite being a lethal pull hitter for much of his career.