Batspeed + batting speed improved, but the batting average of 0.185 in June keeps falling after Lee Jung-hoo, why on earth?
Jun 21, 2025
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San Francisco Giants Lee Jung-hoo has not found his pace even in June. The batting average fell to the .25 level.
Lee Jung-hoo played as a seventh batter for the first time against the Cleveland Guardians at Oracle Park on the 20th and scored no hits, one walk, and one point in two at-bats. The batting average fell from 0.261 the previous day to 0.259 and sank to .255 for the first time this season.
The last time Lee Jung-hoo maintained a batting average in the 300s was on May 8. He went 0-for-5 against the Chicago Cubs that day, and his batting average fell vertically from 0.312 to 0.301. It is the day when the collapse of the 300s was predicted. Then, the next day, he fell to 0.293 with no hits in four at-bats against the Minnesota Twins, and the next game, the 11th, he failed to make another hit against Minnesota, quickly collapsing the 209-unit range with 0.287.
He went 0 for 4 against the Athletics on May 19 and fell to 0.276, and recovered to .28 with seven consecutive hits from May 20-26, but went 0 for 4 against the Detroit Tigers on May 29 and fell back to 0.276.
In June, he remained hitless in five of the 14 games he started until the 20th, and collapsed in five days. The monthly batting average is 0.319, 0.231 in May, and 0.185 in June.
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As of the 20th, we looked into statcast indicators. Batspeed is located in the bottom 13% at 68.5 miles. In other words, if you line up in quick order, it is the 88th out of 100 people. Hard hits (pitch speeds of 95 miles or more) are 32.1 percent, the bottom 14 percent, and the average batting speed is 88.0 miles, the bottom 23 percent. The indicators related to power can be considered to be at the bottom.
However, the ability to guess is the highest level. The squared-up ratio is 36.1%, the top 5%, the swing and miss ratio is 13.4%, the top 6% in the lowest order, and the bat is 23.6% in the lowest order, the top 25%. The strikeout rate is 11.3%, which is also the top 6% in the lowest order.
Among them, 'Squared-Up' refers to a hit that has a speed of 80% or more of the maximum batting speed that can be combined with the speed of the ball thrown by the pitcher and the bat speed of the batter. In other words, Lee Jung-hoo is in the top 5% of this category as an indicator of how close he got to the sweet spot.
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However, if you look at Lee Jung-hoo's statcast indicators recently, you can see an ironic appearance. The average batting speed of 17 in-play hits in the last five games was 89.3 miles, exceeding the season average by 1.3 miles, and the number of hard hits was 10. In other words, the increase in batting speed and hard hits is that there have been more square-up hits and barrels, so why didn't the hits come out well.
During this period, the average launch angle of 17 hits by Lee Jung-hoo was 7.8 degrees, below the season average of 12.2. It is proof that there were many ground balls. In fact, out of 15 pitches, excluding two hits, there were more than half of the ground ball outs with eight. In the end, it is possible to analyze that the batting average is falling related to the swing trajectory.
Lee Jung-hoo's bat speed was 69.1 miles in June, which is faster than the season average.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
