Matt Carpenter is hitting better than Nelson Cruz, and Cubs lefty Justin Steele does far better against left-handed batters
Matt Carpenter is coming off a series in which he was 5-for-7 with three doubles and two home runs. Nelson Cruz has one hit and 10 strikeouts in his past 15 at-bats.
“When your swing is good and when you’re confident with where your swing is at, you’re able to kind of stick with that approach,” he said recently. “… I feel like the years that I struggled, towards the end of my time in St. Louis, I just wasn’t in a good place with where my swing was. It was hard to hit righties or lefties. I’ve always felt like, for most of my career, when I was right, I handled my own against left-handed pitching.
“I think it’s a combination of things,” Grisham said. “I don’t think it’s one thing. I think it’s a product of the work that I put in and the clarity that I got from last year and just a lot of things that I’ve learned from being around for the past nine years in professional baseball — just kind of learning more and more and trying to put all that together.”
Another thing that is significantly different would seem to portend good things. That is a change in approach.His 45.8 percent swing rate is the highest of his career and up from last year’s 37.9 percent. He is swinging at more than two-thirds of the pitches he sees in the strike zone compared to 58.1 percent of those pitches last season.
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