All signs that indicate that Phillies receive a high-end version of Max Kepler this season

The Philadelphia Phillies made a low season to be an outdoor field unit. Max Kepler.

He was not the left -handed racket that many wanted because Juan Soto had signed at the New York Mets. But the upward trend of the outfielder born in Germany was enough for Dave Dombrowski to take a chance for him.

What Kepler would bring to the table was not known.

If he is right, he has produced two seasons with OPS+ figures that are 20 points or more than the league average and reached 36 Homer in 2023 in 2019 and 24.

But mostly Kepler was a below -average bat and set up an OPS+ number, which is located in six of his eight complete campaigns below 100.

The Phillies rely on him in order to be the version of itself from the 2023 season, hoping that he can turn the clock back and appear at the level he made in 2019.

Although he has not reached this highlight this year and his current statistics do not look as if he is playing an elite degree, all the signs show that Philadelphia gets Kepler’s high-end version this season.

On the one hand, the underlying metrics indicate that its numbers should be better than what they are.

His expected average.

Its percentage in the basis of what he did in 2019 and 2023, with these numbers being 0.336 or 0.332, while his current walk rate of 11.7% is the highest of his career.

Not to mention 46.5% this year, his hard hit percentage is the 40% mark for the fourth time of all time, with the other three during this campaigns 2019 and 2023 and during the 20th season when he scored 19 Homer.

All of these advanced statistics signal that Kepler could come a boom for Kepler.

What he has to get to bring the ball into the air.

Its floor ball rate of 51.2% is certainly the highest of his career, while his flyball percentage of 27.9% is its lowest ever.

However, it should be pointed out that Kepler has changed its impetus in this low season.

The Phillies worked with him on a new stroke and placed his bat to another place before a pitch was delivered. This requires a certain adaptation and has performed its performance on the plate both positively and negatively.

If Kepler can increase the ball with its current hard hit rate in the same aid price, he will show a monster this year.

This is not guaranteed and there is still a lot of baseball to play that could cause all of his underlying metrics to crater, which he has previously done from this point of view, indicates that he will be the elite outfield that this team has been looking for for the last few seasons.