{"id":1993099,"date":"2025-09-02T17:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1993099"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:08:28","slug":"bobby-witt-jr-deserves-far-more-mvp-consideration-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bobby-witt-jr-deserves-far-more-mvp-consideration-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Witt Jr. Deserves Far More MVP Consideration This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He\u2019s still hitting the ball at a plenty hard, with his 49.1% hard-hit rate ranking in the league\u2019s 83rd percentile. He pairs that with a 79th percentile barrel rate (12.7%) and an astonishing 96th percentile AVG exit velocity of 93.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Then in terms of his expected metrics, his xBA, xSLG and xwOBA all sit in the 92nd percentile and above, ranking in the 99th, 92nd and 92nd percentiles respectively.<\/p>\n<p>While all of these numbers are great, what really stands out with Witt is the way he has come on strong this season post-All-Star break.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Half<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>AVG<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>OBP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>SLG<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>OPS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>K%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>BB%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>wRC+<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1st<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>.294<\/td>\n<td>.345<\/td>\n<td>.504<\/td>\n<td>.849<\/td>\n<td>19.0%<\/td>\n<td>7.1%<\/td>\n<td>126<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2nd<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>.311<\/td>\n<td>.380<\/td>\n<td>.507<\/td>\n<td>.886<\/td>\n<td>18.1%<\/td>\n<td>9.0%<\/td>\n<td>141<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bobby Witt Jr. 1st-half vs. 2nd-half splits in 2025, as per FanGraphs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, when you look deeper, the quality of contact has looked much more promising since the play resumed after the Midsummer Classic. <\/p>\n<p>According to FanGraphs, Witt\u2019s second-half hard-hit rate is 43.7%, nearly five percent higher than his 38.8% first-half clip. <\/p>\n<p>His harder contact means he\u2019s no longer spraying the ball to the opposite field as much, which isn\u2019t always a bad thing, but it does imply he\u2019s hitting it on the screws far more. His pull rate has remained at an identical 34.5%, his center rate is at 41.2% in the second-half as opposed to his 35.5% mark in the first-half, all while his 24.4% opposite rate is much lower now than his opening 30.0%.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.justbaseball.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s still hitting the ball at a plenty hard, with his 49.1% hard-hit rate ranking in the league\u2019s 83rd percentile. He pairs that with a 79th percentile barrel rate (12.7%) and an astonishing 96th percentile AVG exit velocity of 93.4%. Then in terms of his expected metrics, his xBA, xSLG and xwOBA all sit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1993100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bobby-Witt-Jr-Deserves-Far-More-MVP-Consideration-This-Season.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}