On Saturday night, Jeff Passan broke the news that the Seattle Mariners are signing outfielder AJ Pollock to a one-year deal for $7 million, though incentives could push that to $10 million. The right-handed hitting 35-year-old is widely expected to be the weak-side of a platoon with whoever wins the Jarred Kelenic/Taylor Trammell/Cade Marlowe battle in Spring Training.
But before we settle into a vision of Pollock as just a lefty masher, we should look deeper because Pollock’s splits aren’t as extreme as they first appear. The freshest data, from 2022, shows a monster gap: a .