Kole Calhoun, OF, Los Angeles Angels
When your team is playing well while having both the best player on the planet (Mike Trout) and possibly the most interesting player on the planet (Shohei Ohtani), struggles from other players can get overlooked. Still, it’s impossible to ignore the .163/.196/.206 triple slash and 9 wRC+ that Kole Calhoun has produced thus far.
That wRC+ is easily the worst in baseball among qualified hitters.
Calhoun’s overall production has been a bit of a roller coaster throughout the years, but he’s hit at least 17 homers in each of the last four seasons. He has just one so far this year, and his 56.9% ground-ball rate isn’t helping. Neither is his 24.5% fly-ball rate. His 40.0% hard-hit rate on fly balls isn’t that bad, but he’s hitting 52.0% of them the opposite way while pulling just 12.0% of them.
His pull rate on fly balls last year was 25.3%.
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