Man, Genesis Cabrera has been weird this year. He is nothing like what I, or probably most Cardinals fans expected him to be this year. A high-velocity strikeout guy with spotty control has become a pitch to contact guy, at least through his first 26 2⁄3 innings.
Perhaps I’m exaggerating. Maybe Cabrera isn’t intentionally pitching to contact, I doubt it, in fact, considering the pitcher he’s always been, but that’s exactly the kind of pitcher the numbers say he is. His 39th percentile strikeout rate and 58th percentile walk rate mean that an above average percentage of balls are put into play against him.