While some athletes will have their best seasons before or after this range, research indicates that this is when muscle development, flexibility, regenerative health, and many other factors lead to a baseball player being in their peak physical condition.
Not quite; however, I thought it would be interesting to see which hitters in their athletic prime could be in for mini breakout seasons of sorts.
After sorting by age to create an initial leaderboard, I looked at hitters who produced above-league-average value in a few of the categories I like the most when it comes to hitters. Those categories are: walk rate, strikeout rate, chase rate, barrel rate, swinging strike rate, and contact rate. The goal of this endeavor is to find hitters who are entering their prime years who last year proved to have above-average plate discipline, contact rates, and quality of contact.
By doing that, we can hopefully land on some hitters who could be in for breakout seasons in I also made a few tough cuts on players who were close to hitting all the thresholds.
Victor Robles missed the mark with both his walk rate and barrel rate, so I left him off. Jose Miranda is another noteworthy one who could be in for a solid season but had just a 4. After a rough start to the season, Pasquantino was rolling from May 1st on, slashing. He also saw a huge power spike in August, hitting seven home runs in 26 games in part due to a Still, those 25 home runs will likely come with a. When he was on the field, he hit. His He also tied Pasquantino for the lowest swinging strike rate of anybody on the list and was second to Pasquantino in contact rate while showing a higher max exit velocity and barrel rate.
