He has five RBIs. He has three home runs. How is this even possible?
Aside from three solo home runs, he has two RBIs.
He is 2-for-26 with RISP. That's how!
He's like a game on The Price Is Right.
"I'm Austin Wells, and I'm a professional baseball player. Guess my batting average. Lower. Lower. Lower. Lower."
"I guess .000, Bob."
"Higher."
The Yankees have two catchers currently batting .174.
Are they going to do something about this?
The old baseball saying is that it's bad if you can't hit your weight. What if you can't hit half your weight?
... though I don't expect Yankee fans to wear anti-Weaver tee-shirts and dramatically turn their back on him.
It's not really very shocking, is it?
Do you know the Yankees? The New York Yankees? The best way to get the team to score zero runs is to just walk the bases loaded with no outs. Dreams of Grand Slams will override all other considerations.
Also, the best way to score against the Yankees is to stand at home plate and not swing the bat.
It's one thing to get three runs on one hit. A walk, a hbp, a three-run home run.
It's quite another when that one hit is a single.
Carlos Rodon finds a way every time, doesn't he?
I don't fully buy into the Rays, but that's just an opinion.
The Rays have confounded the Yankees for most of the decade. The Rays are the Yankees' true rival at this time. Not the Red Sox, not the Blue Jays, not the Orioles, not the Mets.
But what's the warning?
Are the Yankees not going to make the playoffs this year?
Caballero is batting .348 with RISP.
The anti-Volpe.
Sure, it's small sample size nonsense to some degree, but look more closely.
Two strikeouts in 23 at-bats with RISP.
It's a strategy.
Austin Wells has five RBIs.
Wells has a lot of walks for some reason, but overall pitiful production from the catchers.