Joey Votto and Matt Holliday are among the hottest hitters in baseball. A look at those who are hot and those who are not, through Tuesday night in MLB.
He might not have the type of power numbers he's used to, but that doesn't mean Matt Holliday is any less locked in at the plate.
Holliday entered Tuesday hitting .361/.467/.389 before a 4-for-4 performance against the Washington Nationals in the St. Louis Cardinals' 2-1 loss. Holliday added a walk to his line for the night, raising his on-base percentage to over .500 for the season. The 35-year-old veteran outfielder has yet to hit a home run and has just one extra-base hit in 2015, but that doesn't matter quite as much as it would if he wasn't nearly impossible to get out.
Speaking of players who don't make out often, Joey Votto had a lot made this offseason of his preference for getting on base over hitting for power and, specifically, driving in runs. None of those things are an issue for Votto in 2015.
The Cincinnati Reds' star first baseman increased his National League-leading home run total to six in his club's 16-10 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. Votto has 13 runs batted in and boasts a slugging percentage north of .800. Like Holliday, Votto has also reached base in more than half of his plate appearances, proving that he is capable of appeasing both sides of the ridiculous argument that, prior to now at least, wouldn't go away.
On the flip side, a former teammate of Votto's is in the midst of a horrendous slump.
Colorado Rockies outfielder Drew Stubbs went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts in a 7-5 loss to the San Diego Padres. Stubbs, the owner of notorious platoon splits throughout his career, hasn't hit much of anyone this season, striking out in nine of his 15 plate appearances. That performance follows a horrendous spring in which Stubbs fanned 25 times in 50 official at-bats. It should also be mentioned that Stubbs does not have a hit this season. Maybe spring training matters sometimes, after all.
No hitter in baseball is colder than Houston Astros first baseman Chris Carter, though. Carter, unlike Stubbs, has a qualified number of plate appearances but hasn't done much in any of them. After striking out twice in the Astros' 6-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday, Carter is 4-for-45 with 21 strikeouts and no extra-base hits.
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