Statcast says not to panic about Cruz in 2019

The underlying Statcast™ metrics actually give reason to believe that Cruz wasn’t all too different a hitter in 2018 than he was in ’17. Cruz has been a statistical darling since the Statcast™ era began in 2015. He finished in the top one percent of the league in hard-hit rate in each of the last three seasons, and actually saw his hard-hit rate increase in 2018.