A victim of bad BABIP luck in the first half? It sure looks like it.

Has earned $4 and $5. BABIP .255. 

The G/L/F (36/16/48) is effectively same as last year, which could say he had great BABIP luck last year.

Mike Yastrzemski (OF) SF - Jul. 01
https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/player.php?id=789193

Yastrzemski went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk in a 5-3 loss to Arizona on Thursday.

ROTOWIRE RECOMMENDS: Yastrzemski opened the scoring with his first inning home run and walked in the eighth for his first times on base in nearly a week. Despite a low .224 average, Yastrzemski sports an above average .804 OPS thanks to 64% of his hits going for extra bases.

Yesterday's Biggest Play

Batter: Mike Yastrzemski (SFG) Pitcher: Humberto Castellanos (ARI) Situation: Bottom 8th, 2 out, 1-2 count, Bases Loaded Score:  ARI 8, SFG 5 Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep RF Line) 4 runs scored on the play, and SFG's win probability increased 72% points, to 85% SFG went on to win the game, 9-8 View the full game Boxscore at Baseball-Reference.com

Stathead Spotlight: Mike Yastrzemski Most recent grand slams when down by 3 runs in the 8th inning or later Date Batter Tm Opp Score Inn 2021‑06‑15 Mike Yastrzemski SFG  ARI down 8‑5 b8 2020‑09‑04 Kevin Pillar COL @LAD down 5‑2 t8 2019‑09‑18 Randal Grichuk TOR @BAL down 9‑6 t9 2019‑07‑22 Tyler Saladino MIL  CIN down 4‑1 b8 2018‑08‑31 Justin Smoak TOR @MIA down 5‑2 t9 2018‑08‑12 David Bote* CHC  WSN down 3‑0 b9 2018‑05‑19 Chad Pinder OAK @TOR down 4‑1 t8 * - walkoff See the full list at Stathead.com's Batting Event Finder

Yesterday's Biggest Play

Yesterday's Biggest Play Batter: Mike Yastrzemski (SFG) Pitcher: Humberto Castellanos (ARI) Situation: Bottom 8th, 2 out, 1-2 count, Bases Loaded Score:  ARI 8, SFG 5 Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep RF Line) 4 runs scored on the play, and SFG's win probability increased 72% points, to 85% SFG went on to win the game, 9-8 View the full game Boxscore at Baseball-Reference.com

Stathead Spotlight: Mike Yastrzemski Most recent grand slams when down by 3 runs in the 8th inning or later Date Batter Tm Opp Score Inn 2021‑06‑15 Mike Yastrzemski SFG  ARI down 8‑5 b8 2020‑09‑04 Kevin Pillar COL @LAD down 5‑2 t8 2019‑09‑18 Randal Grichuk TOR @BAL down 9‑6 t9 2019‑07‑22 Tyler Saladino MIL  CIN down 4‑1 b8 2018‑08‑31 Justin Smoak TOR @MIA down 5‑2 t9 2018‑08‑12 David Bote* CHC  WSN down 3‑0 b9 2018‑05‑19 Chad Pinder OAK @TOR down 4‑1 t8 * - walkoff See the full list at Stathead.com's Batting Event Finder

Percentiles: Barrel 72 EV 39 xBA 56 xSLG 81 SO 39 BB 82 speed 67

I'd guessing at first glance you'll see a lot of overlap of guys in this price range - except for the outliers who just plummeted in price in CBS once 90% of the "teeners" had been bought up at tic price, and there were still 10% left with almost no money to buy them.

In other words - it wasn't like everyone in the room all the sudden looked at the amount of money spent and their bid sheets and decided to uniformly discount everyone 25% or whatever.  Instead they continued to bid up to where they thought a guy was worth ... and were even happy when they got a 10% bargain.

$19 in LABR, $21 in CBS.

After entering all of the LABR prices for hitters in tomorrow's update, here's my conclusion:

Stage Three Hell lives on. Even a 60-game season couldn't change that.

Some examples (first CBS, then LABR):

D Smith $19 $20

W Smith $16, $17

J Soler $15, $15

E Suarez $24, $25

D Swanson $23, $22

L Taveras $18 $16

G Urshella $16, $16

C Vazquez $14, $16

Once you adjust for the aggressive early bidding in CBS, the two zoom rooms are the same.

The rule of thumb is something I discovered when I made a big chart of everyone's roto earnings for the post-war ERA. What you find is that players who make their first baseball earnings who are older (say 27+) usually have shorter careers.

My theory is that around age 27 players hit a sweet spot of physical skill and mental acuity, so guys like MYaz and Whit Merrifield finally get a big-league shot and some are able to capitalize, as he has. But after 27 the physical skill starts to fade, and for players who started with less they fade more quickly.

There are exceptions, of course, but perhaps they prove the rule?

Fixed! Thanks.

Yes, the father, who was Yaz's only son played, even sadder details at ESPN, great to see his kid recover from it:

 His father, Carl Jr. (who went by Mike),^[5] played college baseball for the Florida State Seminoles baseball team, and played professionally in the minor leagues from 1984 to 1988.^[8] His father and mother, Anne-Marie, divorced when he was six years old.^[5] Carl Jr. died at the age of 43 from a blood clot after having hip surgery.

Brucej4 is referring to the first sentence of Rotoman's extended comment.

The late-blooming son of a Hall of Famer wasn't expected to get better in his second big league year, but he did.

The end of it --

The rule of thumb with late bloomers is that they fade fast, don't expect a career deep into their 30s, but it's tempting to give M-Yaz the benefit of the doubt this year. He's past the point of flash in the pan, expect him to lose some batting average but otherwise we should see more of the same this year.

I wonder why that is the rule of thumb?

Also, did dad play baseball?