Zack Cozart, Los Angeles Angels
A career year with the Reds in 2017 led to a nice payday and a position change for Zack Cozart with the Angels. Year one of three with the club didn’t go well — not only did he scuffle to an 84 wRC+ and 0.3 fWAR, but he played in just 58 games overall.
Cozart’s batted-ball profile actually didn’t change much when comparing his abbreviated 2018 to what he did the year before. He even paired it with a significant rise in hard contact (30.8% to 36.8%). The veteran infielder did watch his BABIP fall from .312 to .244, though.
His performance on fly balls took a huge nose dive — after posting a 180 wRC+ with a 17.5% soft-hit rate, 33.8% hard-hit rate, and 11.7% infield-fly rate in 2017, those numbers settled in at 85, 26.7%, 38.7%, and 17.3%, respectively, in 2018.
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