Why is jeff francoeur frenchy

Watch Now:. Francoeur gets his own 'Frenchy' beer Matt Snyder 2 min read. How secure is Manfred's job as lockout looms? Dayn Perry 7 min read. Top offseason question for each team Mike Axisa 19 min read. Is Story this winter's Semien? Anderson 3 min read. MLB roundtable: Correa or Seager? Mike Axisa 2 min read. Tatis will not have shoulder surgery this offseason Matt Snyder 1 min read. Jones earned a reputation as a whiff machine in Atlanta, and his K every 4.

Yet Frenchy is only slightly better, 5. Let that sink in for a few minutes. So we've established that Francoeur is just plain bad, even my Andruw Jones standards. But we already knew that, right? The question is, is he going to get better?

Take Jones. His strikeout ratio never improved at all, actually dropping to 4. Neither did his OBP, as he's yet to do better. Well, Andruw did hit. The only thing that did get better was power, as he six times hit more home runs than his best over his first four seasons and five times matched or bettered his top slugging percentage from those early campaigns. In other words, except for home runs, Andruw Jones was as good as he was ever going to get after three seasons in a Braves uniform.

Is he an anomaly? Well, Chipper Jones set almost every single-season mark of his career in his fifth season—as did Andruw. Both were good to great for several years after that, but they were never better than they were in that fifth season, and that fifth season was merely an extension of what they had shown over their first four.

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In , Jeff was named the top prospect in the Braves organization by Baseball America. In his 2nd full season of , Jeff batted. In , the couple welcomed another daughter, named — Eleanor Carolyn. Laura O.