Rougned Odor, Texas Rangers
Odor’s performance has been quite a roller coaster over his last handful of seasons with the Rangers. After two consecutive campaigns of 2.5 fWAR and at least 100 wRC+ from 2015-16, those numbers dropped to -1.2 and 58, respectively, in 2017. But, he then bounced back last year with a 97 wRC+ and 2.5 fWAR.
The young second baseman is going through another valley at the moment, though. Entering Tuesday’s games, he’s limped out to a 66 wRC+, -0.4 fWAR, and 31.8% strikeout rate in 466 plate appearances. His 8.6% walk rate is on track to improve for the third consecutive year, but that hasn’t been enough to save his overall offensive production.
Although the sample sizes aren’t equal, Odor has interestingly been much more effective against left-handed pitchers (104 wRC+) than right-handed pitchers (49 wRC+). Part of that is likely because his line-drive rate (24.0% to 14.7%) and ground-ball rate (29.3% to 38.9%) are head-and-shoulders better when facing southpaws.
Odor has also seen a drop in effectiveness against changeups this year. He produced a 129 wRC+ and .819 OPS against that pitch in 2018, but those numbers have dropped to 58 and .573, respectively, so far in 2019.
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