Max Muncy

Muncy is a sell — the contact is fine, the results aren't

His expected wOBA is .288 against a league average of .315, and at 284 plate appearances that number is stable — this is the level he's at, not a cold stretch. The contact quality isn't the problem: a 43.5% hard-hit rate and 10.7% barrels both beat league, and his average exit velocity matches it at 89.1 mph. The problem is that he strikes out 32% of the time, ten points above league, on a 16.2% swing-and-miss rate, and both of those have been climbing across the sample. Whiff like that eats the balls in play his contact should be creating. There is no luck story to fall back on, and his expected wOBA has been stepping down, not up. Sell. A 0 HR / 0 R / 0 RBI / .000 AVG line isn't a buying window — it's a waiver-wire drop; stream the counting stats elsewhere.