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League 2011: 19.6% line drives, .295 BABIP.
Ichiro 2012: 27.3% line drives, .295 BABIP.
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For somebody to point at a guy with 27.3% line drives, and say "that guy isn't swinging all that well," I don't know where to go from there. What do you do? Let's talk about something else.
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Ichiro's wRC+ of 95 is up from his 82 last year, but after it isn't yet fully reflecting his great swings.
It's 11 games. He keeps getting good pitches and putting enthusiastic swings on him, he will have a good season by his own standards.
He's not J.D. Drew, obviously.