Mike Wilner: The Jays’ Matt Chapman has been an early hit this season — one hard hit after another, actually
I sent that sentence out on social media dozens of times of times last season, the first time we all got to see theon a daily basis, and I have already done it a few times this year.
Chapman is so damn good mostly because of what he does with his glove, his incredible throwing arm, and occasionally with his bare right hand, but in the embryonic stages of the 2023 season he has thrown his bat into the ring, too. Only two players in the majors have put at least 18 balls in play at 95 miles per hour or harder. Only two players have barrelled the ball in more than one quarter of their plate appearances this season. Chapman is on both those lists.
Chapman has also hit four fly balls that have wound up being caught for outs that would have been doubles at the newly configured Rogers Centre, if not home runs.
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