Mets' Luis Robert Jr. walk-off home run may have masked a problem
The other swings haven't been good.
Mets' Luis Robert Jr. walk-off home run may have masked a problem originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here .
There are two ways to look at Luis Robert Jr. 's walk-off home run from Saturday night. Either -- it wakes Robert up after a slow start to the season, or it masks a serious problem for the New York Mets ' centerfielder.
Robert has been bumpy at the plate each of the past two seasons with the Chicago White Sox , but the hope for the Mets was that getting him to a change of scenery and more competitive team would wake him up. Even with the homer, though, Robert's early-season analytics are bad. Robert has the lowest average exit velocity of anyone in baseball with at least four batted ball events this season.
He's hitting the ball at just 67. 7 miles per hour on average. MORE: Yankees break franchise record set by 1908 New York Highlanders Robert is also pounding the ball into the ground, with a negative-9.