Pirates fans in tears as Jackson Chourio is been suspended

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I have a secret to tell, one that might surprise you. I think that baseball analysis is too complex.

I can’t keep track of it all. There are too many numbers, too many ways to approach things, too many parts of the game that might be good in one context, bad in another, and neutral in a third.

My whole job is to analyze baseball, and yet I find myself drowning in data more often than controlling it. My solution is to simplify. I look for players’ superpowers – carrying tools, in baseball parlance.

Aaron Judge is power personified, with the rest of his game building off of that. José Ramírez is a bat control genius. Mookie Betts is the most coordinated man alive.

Luis Arraez could hit soft line drives the other way in his sleep. These shortcuts help me think about how the rest of a player’s game fits in.

MBut I have a problem: I’m trying to analyze Jackson Chourio, and I can’t figure out what his superpower is…