Tulo is on fire, and locked in.
Troy Tulowitzki hit two more home runs last night, bringing his season total to nine, ballooning his slash line to .408/.512./.786, and raising his fWAR to a league-leading 3.1. Those cartoonish numbers speak for themselves, and are bound to regress, but Tulo is doing things he's never done before in his career, and if he keeps doing them, nobody's going to be able to get him out.
For the first time in his career, Tulo is walking more than he's striking out. His walk rate is currently sitting at a career-high 17.8 percent while his strikeout rate is a career-low 10.9 percent. And when he's getting the bat on the ball, he's turning just about every pitch he touches into a hard hit. His BABIP is an ungodly .408, his line drive rate is 26.4 percent, and he's turning 31 percent of the fly balls he hits into home runs, a mark good for second-best in baseball behind Jose Abreu.
We were at the Mets game on Saturday, and were fortunate to see Troy get career hit number 1000. Here's hoping he stays healthy this season, and keeps up this pace!
