Rockies' Trevor Story: Big day at plate in loss to Cardinals
Story went 3-for-5 with a two-run double and a solo homer in Thursday's 13-7 loss to St. Louis.
Anyone waiting for Story's "inevitable" drop-off should take a hard look at his .287 average and all those counting stats, then maybe reevaluate that pessimistic point of view. He's actually slugged eight of his 12 homers away from Coors Field, and that's got to be a scary prospect for the rest of the National League. The combination of his sky-high strikeout rate (yes, he did rack up another whiff again Thursday, his 58th this season) and similarly sky-high BABIP (.368) certainly does seem to foreshadow a fall-off in batting average, but then again, Story was always a high-strikeout, high-BABIP guy in the minors too. Former starting shortstop Jose Reyes may be returning from his suspension in the next couple weeks, but there's no doubt that (barring injury, of course) Story has displaced him for good.
