Does this take into account if he’s facing a lefty or righty pitcher? Because it could be he’s better batting lefty vs a right pitcher as opposed to batting righty vs a righty pitcher.
as a switch hitter, he’s always batting the opposite side of where the pitcher throws from. its a lot easier to handle breaking balls when they break into you, the hard part is perfecting mechanics on two sides of the plate
@@joeklaps4708 I did see that he batted RH against a knuckleballer and Zack Greinke too, as have other switch hitters. To the point, if the Braves wanted him to bat RH exclusively, they likely would have told him so already.
Ozzie is not a bad lefty hitter hes pretty good! I watch the braves everyday time they play and from the right size hes a MVP player but from the left size hes an All-star player. And this year he has more at bats from the left side and he's All-star. Ozzie is special!
After this video, Albies had an .858 OPS with 11 HR in 245 PA left handed for the rest of the season. And had an .818 OPS with 0 HR right handed in 50 Plate Appearances.
There's a stigma with pretty much every manager that you need to get hitters advantage with lefty right matchups, I wish they would look more into the numbers.
If you looked too close at these numbers you would suffer from omission bias. If you said he should only hit righty because his numbers are better as a righty, that would be dumb because he literally has zero ABs as a righty against a righty. That means you have zero data to go off of to say he’d be better of hitting purely as a righty.
@@Cohdiboi yes, that is what the platoon advantage is for, as a righty can make a ball break to their glove side a lot further than their arm side. Also known as seeing the ball from both arms
@@pohorex6834we’re saying the same thing. When you said “see the ball well from both arms”, I originally thought you meant seeing the ball coming out of the pitcher’s hand, not seeing the break.
One thing tho about the whole switch hitting thing is… He has a .335 BA against lefties. But how would he fare going against right handers from the right side? At that point you’re contending with pitches you haven’t seen from the same side such as sliders. It’s all just a guessing game as to what would happen if he stopped switch hitting
Do you know how many non switch hitters have those same splits against lefty/right arms? I'm sure he tried that but it's not as simple as just doing it. For example, he would have to get used to sliders breaking away from him and 2 seamers breaking in on him which he never had to worry about before. Normally your vids are pretty interesting but this is just how it is for a lot of switch hitters.
I would say if he kept hitting bad from that side drop it like Cedric Mullins dropped his weak side. But he’s not hitting bad either side of the plate this season.
Its a little selfish of him to not just stay on the right side. Hes a free out basically from the left, he may accidentally run into one and park it but still
The real question is if he stops switch hitting an goes righty permanently how will he do batting righty vs righty pitcher ? I believe he could still be good but you never know.. I mean Shane Victorino did it one year and did decent but you can never predict how good he will be til he actually does it lol
@@bunkydamonkey1225 yeah, but what I’m saying is that he has so much more potential from the right side. If it works out he could be one of the best hitters in baseball, instead of a good but not great player.
Are you basing that purely off the number of HRs he has? Because if you are you’re completely ignoring the fact that the majority of his ABs are as a lefty hitter.
If Cedric Mullins could do it, Abies currently could. Mullins when from a mediocre switcher do a 30/30 hitter once he focused on his dominate left side.
Difference for Mullins is if he’s a natural lefty, quitting switch hitting means he’s bailing on switch hitting against ~25% of pitchers. Albies is a natural righty, which means he’d be bailing on switch hitting against ~75% of pitchers.
Honestly... those aren't bad numbers for the left side. Plus it's the player's choice if they wanna do such a feat like this. He may be a switch hitter because of the curveball or slider breaking away from him batting right handed. This debate about switch hitting is getting outta control anyways, let the batters do what they want
.760 ops from the left side, 1.101 ops from the right side. should be noted that most of his ab’s are from the left bc most pitchers are righties, so his counting stats are inevitably higher from the left
Well considering he faces about 80% more righties hes going to have a lower average. You analytics people kill me. How about reserach how many ab's he has lefty compared to righty in his career. For the 2023 season he only has 81 at bats right handed and 280 left handed.
Hitting both lefty and righty is actually a lot healthier for your hips and spine to keep everything balanced and not cause any injuries. So hitting lefty is actually helping his righty swing believe it or not.
Keep in mind the majority of his ABs are as a lefty hitter so he will naturally have more HRs from that side. Also worth noting his home ballpark has a short right field wall.
.760 ops from the left side, 1.101 ops from the right side. he is a good power hitter lefty but terrible at getting on base. should be noted that most of his ab’s are from the left bc most pitchers are righties, so his counting stats are inevitably higher from the left
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dont tell him that, i need him to be switch hitter for mlb the show
So true😂
Same
chances are, even if he stops switch hitting, he’ll still have the attribute in MLB the Show
Anecdotal, but hit 2 homers last night (7/4) against the Guardians from the left last night.
Thank you.......seen that my boi
He’s picked it up from the left side here latlety
Bro said last night twice thanks for reminding I forgot it was last night also what time last night and was it last night or last night
Yep
@@heyimmax956 lol sorry. Driving while responding. He also liked good last night last night.
Ozzie is actually getting much better as a lefty
Ever since you posted this vid on your second channel he has raked against righties
The absolute missiles he hit from the left side the past week begs to differ
Recently he has been hitting bombs from the left side so I think he should stay switch hitting. It gives him a good advantage
Important to keep in mind he’ll naturally have more homers hitting lefty since the majority of his ABs come hitting left handed
Does this take into account if he’s facing a lefty or righty pitcher? Because it could be he’s better batting lefty vs a right pitcher as opposed to batting righty vs a righty pitcher.
The only times I've seen Ozzie bat RH against a RHP is if it's a position player pitching. As far as I can recall, anyway.
as a switch hitter, he’s always batting the opposite side of where the pitcher throws from. its a lot easier to handle breaking balls when they break into you, the hard part is perfecting mechanics on two sides of the plate
Why are switch hitters switch hitters?
A: to hit from the opposite side
@@papilgee4evaeva So he' obviously better batting lefty vs RHP, if so than MADE THE CUTs point is gone
@@joeklaps4708 I did see that he batted RH against a knuckleballer and Zack Greinke too, as have other switch hitters.
To the point, if the Braves wanted him to bat RH exclusively, they likely would have told him so already.
If on the bad side he's batting .245 he'll be fine
Ozzie is not a bad lefty hitter hes pretty good! I watch the braves everyday time they play and from the right size hes a MVP player but from the left size hes an All-star player. And this year he has more at bats from the left side and he's All-star. Ozzie is special!
He’s fantastic this year
U can’t say he’s below average when he’s been on track for two 30 home run seasons in a row
Well this year he is quite good from the left side
much more powerful from the left side
He’s been way better left handed than in previous years
i just saw him play and he got a triple hitting from the left side
After this video, Albies had an .858 OPS with 11 HR in 245 PA left handed for the rest of the season. And had an .818 OPS with 0 HR right handed in 50 Plate Appearances.
I think he’s turned this around because in his last 20 games or so he’s batting .350+ from the left side
he’s only facing the side he as an advantage against tho.
There's a stigma with pretty much every manager that you need to get hitters advantage with lefty right matchups, I wish they would look more into the numbers.
If you looked too close at these numbers you would suffer from omission bias. If you said he should only hit righty because his numbers are better as a righty, that would be dumb because he literally has zero ABs as a righty against a righty. That means you have zero data to go off of to say he’d be better of hitting purely as a righty.
He hit a walk off, bomb into the chophouse from the left side not too long ago
Dude he’s had most of his hits and homers from the left side this year it’s fine
Because 3/4 of his ABs come from the left side. That's why. It's high quantity and low quality.
@@codygurnick6405low quality? Have you watch a single game this year? Poor take
@imawhitedude1 is it. He's a career. 247 hitter left handed. With a ops+ of 89. Right handed? .336 with a 133 ops+ so yeah. It's a bad take.
Boi look at him this year
He had 2 bombs Last night from the left side ..😂
He's hitting great from the left side this year. Don't know what ya mean
This dude has some wild takes
Ian happ as well but vice versa
I would just bat right at that point
Some people just can’t see the ball well from both arms. Just because it worked for a player for a season (cedrick) doesn’t mean it works for everyone
It’s not about being able to see a ball from a lefty vs righty necessarily. It’s about being able to see a breaking ball that breaks away from you.
@@Cohdiboi yes, that is what the platoon advantage is for, as a righty can make a ball break to their glove side a lot further than their arm side. Also known as seeing the ball from both arms
@@pohorex6834we’re saying the same thing. When you said “see the ball well from both arms”, I originally thought you meant seeing the ball coming out of the pitcher’s hand, not seeing the break.
If he stopped hitting lefty his righty numbers would drop too
Yeah.... this ain't aging too well...
.760 ops on the left 1.102 on the right, he is still significantly better on the right lol
Have recently left handed Ozzie
Albies looks like a natural lefty who switch hits righty
To me his legs feet and body motion from the left look unnatural compared to the smoother right side
Just because you can do something don’t mean that you should
One thing tho about the whole switch hitting thing is… He has a .335 BA against lefties. But how would he fare going against right handers from the right side? At that point you’re contending with pitches you haven’t seen from the same side such as sliders. It’s all just a guessing game as to what would happen if he stopped switch hitting
Correction I think you mean altuves numbers when he was runner up of the mvp in 2017
People in these comments clearly don’t understand the reason why you switch hit. It’s to avoid ever facing a breaking ball that moves away from you.
ozzie hit 33 HR with a 280 BA and a 849 OPS and a 124 OPS + yet you are telling him to change it up🤣 i’m not even a braves fan either
Do you know how many non switch hitters have those same splits against lefty/right arms? I'm sure he tried that but it's not as simple as just doing it. For example, he would have to get used to sliders breaking away from him and 2 seamers breaking in on him which he never had to worry about before. Normally your vids are pretty interesting but this is just how it is for a lot of switch hitters.
If you hit way better right handed you might as well just hit right handed
Well this aged well….
I would say if he kept hitting bad from that side drop it like Cedric Mullins dropped his weak side. But he’s not hitting bad either side of the plate this season.
Its a little selfish of him to not just stay on the right side. Hes a free out basically from the left, he may accidentally run into one and park it but still
Im better with him from the left on the show 😂
Everyone is saying stop hitting lefty buy he is having an amazing season hitting most of his homers lefty
Switch hitters get paid more
Bro said Ozzie sucks haha
how to tell people I know nothing about baseball
The real question is if he stops switch hitting an goes righty permanently how will he do batting righty vs righty pitcher ? I believe he could still be good but you never know.. I mean Shane Victorino did it one year and did decent but you can never predict how good he will be til he actually does it lol
What are you doing telling us this? If he needs to stop, tell him instead 🙄
Dude has been looking at balls break into him all his life. It would be a huge adjustment. Probably not an easy one either.
Defintiely not but I think it’s worth a shot. Look at Cedric Mullins, he has been a way more productive hitter since he stopped switch hitting.
@@firemarblefilmsCedric was abysmal from the right side. Ozzie is not that bad as a lefty, he has a lot of power
@@bunkydamonkey1225 yeah, but what I’m saying is that he has so much more potential from the right side. If it works out he could be one of the best hitters in baseball, instead of a good but not great player.
Ozzie is good on both sides. I do agree that he is better on the right side but he is good at moving runners by hitting behind them batting lefty.
Bro no Albies as a lefty is better than righty as of 2023 season
He also hits power from the left side sooo…
Are you basing that purely off the number of HRs he has? Because if you are you’re completely ignoring the fact that the majority of his ABs are as a lefty hitter.
There's no guarantee he hits righties better if he stops hitting left-handed. Why is it just assumed that he will?
If Cedric Mullins could do it, Abies currently could. Mullins when from a mediocre switcher do a 30/30 hitter once he focused on his dominate left side.
Difference for Mullins is if he’s a natural lefty, quitting switch hitting means he’s bailing on switch hitting against ~25% of pitchers. Albies is a natural righty, which means he’d be bailing on switch hitting against ~75% of pitchers.
That 2nd one wasn't his fault, did u see the shift they put on, geez.
*3rd
Honestly... those aren't bad numbers for the left side. Plus it's the player's choice if they wanna do such a feat like this. He may be a switch hitter because of the curveball or slider breaking away from him batting right handed. This debate about switch hitting is getting outta control anyways, let the batters do what they want
The breaking ball is 100% of the reason
What about this season?
.760 ops from the left side, 1.101 ops from the right side. should be noted that most of his ab’s are from the left bc most pitchers are righties, so his counting stats are inevitably higher from the left
He'll be fat in less than 10 years. The same is true for Guerrero Jr.
I think it’s best left up to a coach or other professional, this does nothing for me.
Well considering he faces about 80% more righties hes going to have a lower average. You analytics people kill me. How about reserach how many ab's he has lefty compared to righty in his career. For the 2023 season he only has 81 at bats right handed and 280 left handed.
No hate but when he was righty he was facing lefty no righty
Jesus loves you God bless
Hitting both lefty and righty is actually a lot healthier for your hips and spine to keep everything balanced and not cause any injuries. So hitting lefty is actually helping his righty swing believe it or not.
he has started to become more of a slugger from the lefty side now though
Keep in mind the majority of his ABs are as a lefty hitter so he will naturally have more HRs from that side. Also worth noting his home ballpark has a short right field wall.
He is raking lefty what are you talking about
.760 ops from the left side, 1.101 ops from the right side. he is a good power hitter lefty but terrible at getting on base.
should be noted that most of his ab’s are from the left bc most pitchers are righties, so his counting stats are inevitably higher from the left
And altuve was cheating so Ozzie’s better
What does altuve have to do with this at all? I hate the Astros more than anything but what are you on about?
@@dionpierre5847 just that Ozzie’s better than altuve that’s it bud chill
This aged poorly.
Nope
Your trash talking about him like that
This is such a casual baseball fan take massive L
Should’ve made this video 3 months ago
First