Justin Turner is just about ready

Phil Gurnee ♦ May 3, 2019 ♦ Leave a comment

If you have access to Spectrum or are an out of town Dodger fan you have heard Joe Davis say over and over that Justin Turner doesn’t hit in April. The stats don’t lie as Turner has only three home runs in 480 plate appearances in April.  Turner hits more in May but his bat doesn’t historically catch fire until June. I think if Turner can stay healthy this May that he’ll hit more like June this summer and erase the doubts that his bat is slowing down.

If you don’t have Spectrum, you might find the Turner splits interesting.

These are his career splits.

Split           G  PA   H 2B HR RBI   BA  OBP  SLG  OPS  TB
April/March   148 480 124 27  3  43 .289 .353 .378 .730 162
May           166 559 139 31 11  73 .283 .360 .413 .773 203
June          155 576 152 26 25  86 .302 .381 .511 .892 257
July          138 504 130 34 14  56 .291 .363 .461 .824 206
August        177 652 161 40 24  82 .279 .354 .484 .838 279
Sept/Oct      183 635 168 46 17  75 .304 .385 .487 .873 269

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 5/3/2019.