Comments on: Rarely is the question asked: is our Jeff Francoeur learning?

By: Your annual “Jeff Francoeur is working on his plate discipline” story | HardballTalk

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:51:19 +0000

[...] to be working on pitch-recognition, plate patience and jacking up his on-base percentage. Here’s last year’s. Not too long ago someone gathered links to all of them going back to the fall of 2005, but I [...]

By: wrong em

wrong em — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:24:39 +0000

LOVE this headline.
Was the original line “rarely HAS the question asked”?

By: YX

YX — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:12:55 +0000

I’m sure pretty much every hitter do great on the first pitch. After all, they can’t struck out on first pitch.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:23:46 +0000

Jose Reyes had very similar struggles. He had zero discipline when he first came up, and Rob Neyer called him the worst everyday player in the bigs. In 2005, he did not draw his first walk until June!!
It took him a little while to find the right balance between patience and aggression, but he found that balance in 2006, and he took off.
Now of course age is a factor, but Reyes was 23 when he made that adjustment, and Frenchy isn’t that far off. Time will tell if he can get it together, but the example that this improvement can be made at the highest level is just a few lockers down.

By: Steve Stein

Steve Stein — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:29:10 +0000

I want Francoeur to succeed, too, especially since I drafted him 2nd in my APBA league a few years ago and he’s been haunting RF ever since.
But I have to disagree with you, Craig. I thought he tried this in his next-to-last year as a Brave and his offense went to hell.
In his career, he hits 345/357/592 on the first pitch. (The OBP is higher than the Avg because of 13 HBP.) Jeff, stop thinking and just hit!

By: moreflagsmorefun

moreflagsmorefun — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:38:01 +0000

He is still driving you craZy, but now he’s doing it as a Met…
oh boy………..