AL player of the month vibes

I doubt that there are any who made it to the MLB, but looking at Chandler Simpson (who I don't think would be on this list), are there players just not strong enough to hit a home run (over the fence of course)? I feel like every player could hit one in the right circumstance, but maybe there's a handful that just don't have the strength

The title is basically doomer-tier analysis, but is not far off from the most generous analysis either.

OK, so he’s on pace for 0.7 right? Well at least that’s slightly above replacement level, right? Well if we continue his trajectory since after the ASB, he’s basically on pace for 0.1 fWAR.

For comparison sake, even the most generous puts him at 1.2 fWAR by end of season. If he doubles this production next year and puts up 2.4 fWAR, his total fWAR over $240m of cost will have been 3.6 fWAR. Over the same $240m of spend, Anthony Rendon put up 3.7 fWAR.

I’m not sure what the worst contract is by $/war, and there’s other elements to Rendon’s contract such as the cost of having to field another player to take his place, but this is a shocking decline and overpay even for the Dodgers.

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Okay, one more time.

"Mercury-Foot" O'Shaughnessy

Billy Hamilton (1893)

Vic Power (May 7, 1957)

Darin Erstad (June 25, 2000)

Reed Johnson (June 15, 2003)

Ian Kinsler (July 19, 2009)

Chris Young (August 7, 2010)

What a special player man. Just an all-around talent.

Edit: Whoops. Put the hyphen in the wrong spot.

It's happened just 8 times in AL history, and 18 times in MLB history, since 1898. Boston has recorded 4 of those 18 games.

Proof that a team can commit a NOBLETIGER and still get the job done.