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Otherwise, I'd have already posted.  But if you look at his numbers against lefty relievers, most of whom are marginal in terms of velocity as  ageneral rule, he's hit 2 of his 3 dingers against that subgroup this season and has a career .789 OPS against lefty relievers (.770 against all lefties).  There's a reason he has a reverse platoon split...and I think it's primarily because when he cheats to hit a right handed fastball, he becomes vulnerable to all of the other pitches...whereas he can't cheat against lefties (takes too long to see the ball) so he can clobber off-speed stuff from that group.  I'm not arguing that the case is closed here...but I'm telling you what I observe.  Intelligently deployed against lefties with good breaking pitches, I bet he will outhit his normal OPS.

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