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Luke Voit 2020 Outlook: Will Hit, If Given the Playing Time
5 years agoLuke Voit was never going to sustain his .322/.398/.671 small-sample slash line from 2018, but he remained productive when healthy in 2019. Prior to suffering a sports hernia in late July, he hit 19 homers in 94 games with a .278/.392/.493 line. After returning, he hit just .200/.319/.338, which left him with an overall line of .263/.378/.464 with 21 home runs in 118 games. A .494 xSLG and 38 barrels on the season suggest that his results were somewhat worse than you might expect in the power department, although his .249 xBA was a bit low. Voit had surgery after the season and will enter 2020 healthy. It's never 100% clear how playing time will work out on the Yankees; Voit had to compete with Greg Bird last spring training and may see a fight with Mike Ford this year. However, Voit has done nothing since 2018 to suggest he shouldn’t be an everyday player when healthy. He should ultimately hit plenty of homers and drive in runs for another strong Yankees offense. Voit’s ADP of 193 seems like an overreaction to his late season slump that was clearly correlated with his hernia; his RotoBaller staff ranking of 169 is a better spot to target him. That will go up if he is named the starting first baseman and down if Ford starts to gain traction.
