Do you know how many times Khalil has made ME punch things?

I do think he cares tremendously, I just think he holds himself to a standard where he can’t show emotion. The most frustrating thing about this season is that he appears to be doing some things right.

His pitches per plate appearance are the second highest they’ve ever been, as is his line drive rate. Presumably, hitting line drives and seeing more pitches should translate to greater success. What is interesting is that some of his peripheral stats (not the big 3 of OBP/AVG/SLG) are in line with his career numbers. The big difference is that his HR per flyball is way down, and his BABIP is an absurdly low .255.

It’s got to be frustrating to be trying to do things right (seeing more pitches, hitting line drives), and yet not getting results (the low BABIP is a killer). He’s still playing fantastic defense, but he’s got to be incredibly frustrated right now. Hopefully the hand injury isn’t too serious (wouldn’t it be ironic for people who have always criticized him for not showing emotion to get all over him for hurting him during such a display?), but if it is, I hope he can take some time off to just sit back and relax a bit.

Any ideas on how to help the Nats win A game.

I fully concur and pallishly add that the ‘h’ comes before the ‘a’.

None of them had a SS with a OBP over .320 who could hit for power. The best OBP SS was Eckstein, twice, and his defense is bad. Almost ever other SS was a good field, no OBP having career years in HRs (with the exceptions of Julio Lugo and Pokey Reese, who had no power and no OBP). The last exceptional offensive SS on WS champion was Derek Jeter in 2000, and I think most know where his defense stands. The last WS champion who had a SS who could do all three (with all apologies to Barry Larkin, who hit for power post-1990) was the 1984 Detroit Tigers with Alan Trammell and his .382 OBP, .468 SLG and reputation as a good glove man (4 GGs for what that’s worth).