Let's try something new today. Maybe we'll keep doing this all season. Maybe not. You have to keep reading the blog to find out!

Today's statistical report:the best hitters against fastballs, entering Monday's action (ranked by OPS):

1. Adrian Gonzalez, Los Angeles Dodgers: .431/.479/.862

2. Devon Travis, Toronto Blue Jays: .426/.500/.833

3. Russell Martin, Blue Jays: .382/.500/.818

4. Michael Brantley, Cleveland Indians: .436/.500/.745

5. Jorge Soler, Chicago Cubs: .447/.519/.702

Jorge Soler has killed fastballs in his young major league career, but breaking stuff has been a bit more problematic. Caylor Arnold/USA TODAY Sports

The next five are Pedro Alvarez, Starling Marte, Adam Jones, Nelson Cruz and Yonder Alonso.

I wanted to focus on Soler, since his name stood out to me. Overall, he's hitting a solid .280/.331/.432 -- but leads the majors with 45 strikeouts. Factoring in that he's blistered fastballs yet has struck out that often, you can quickly gather that he's struggled against off-speed stuff; indeed, he's hitting .130/.125/.174 against curves, sliders, changeups and splitters. In 48 plate appearances ending with a breaking ball, he has 26 strikeouts.

Back in spring training, Cubs manager Joe Maddon, perhaps a bit ambitiously, compared the rookie to Vladimir Guerrero, saying, "He's like Vladimir with plate discipline," referring to Guerrero's penchant to swing at anything within two time zones of home plate.

With a 45/9 strikeout-to-walk ratio, it might appear that Soler is more of a wild swinger than Maddon believed. Not necessarily. His chase percentage on swinging at pitches outside the strike zone is 32.7 percent, above the MLB average of 28.5 percent, but there are 54 regulars with a higher chase percentage. His percentage is the same as Jose Altuve and Robinson Cano. Guerrero, of course, always rated near the top of this list, and being at the top isn't a good thing.

Against off-speed pitches, however, Soler's chase percentage does spike up to 40 percent. But here's the big difference between Soler and Guerrero: Vlad still made contact. Against off-speed pitches, Soler's swing-and-miss percentage is 58.9 percent, worst in the majors. (Giancarlo Stanton is currently second-worst.)

Will Soler learn to hit a breaking pitch? I have no idea. He's only 227 plate appearances into his career. The fact that's not a complete hacker up there gives hope that his pitch recognition will improve. But right now, the Vlad comparisons were certainly a little premature.

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