Fortunate indeed. Because by any stretch Joey Gallo was a strange statistical cat this year. And during his 58 games with the Yankees not very good at actually doing what he was paid to do.
For the NYY, he had 188 AB's and 228 PA's. He slashed .160/.303/.404, for an OPS of .707 and OPS+ of 93. so hes 7% under average for teh league. He has 88 K's in those 188 AB's for a nice tidy 46.8% strike out rate. Prorated to 600 AB's that's 281 K's. He would have obliterated the old record in August. Mid August
But he hits HR's. Ok He hit 13 for NYY and drove in 22 runs. Thats 9 people besides Joey Gallo who he drove in during those 188 AB's. But its really worse. During those 13 HR's he actually had 7 men on base. So in the 175 AB's where he didnt hit a HR, he drove in 2 yes 2 people. And one of those on his magical sac fly and thats not counted as an AB. So its really 175 AB's and 1 run. One. Uno. Juan. You could not try and be less productive as a hitter. And all this is in a park where they all but take Uber to get a ball out to right field. I mean you can hit a weak pop up and it will carry over that fence in Yankees Stadium in RF.
Deeper, his bWAR was 0.4, WAA was -0.3 (yes negative) and his RAA was -4. Negative freaking 4 runs against average.
The only saving grace? The Yankees werent paying for this lack or production this year.
Its a good argument that Joey maximixed his true outcomes this year, or at least did it better than anyone has before. And it resulted in some really really really bad production.
