{"id":17923,"date":"2022-06-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/dodgers-freddie-freeman-makes-a-bold-claim"},"modified":"2022-10-09T06:12:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T06:12:31","slug":"dodgers-freddie-freeman-makes-a-bold-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/dodgers-freddie-freeman-makes-a-bold-claim","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers: Freddie Freeman Makes A Bold Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Freeman thinks the hot streak is coming. Freddie Freeman has been ice cold at the plate as of late. In the month of June, Freeman owns a .601 OPS and trails only Chris Taylor and Cody Bellinger in strikeout rate on the team. View the original article to see embedded media. Baseball traditionalists will roll their eyes, but the June Statcast data clearly shows that Freeman isn&#8217;t hitting that ball that hard in the rare times he does put it in play. He has the lowest average exit velocity (86.4 MPH) and the second lowest launch angle (11.1 degrees) among the everyday players on the Dodgers this month. All that being said, Freeman believes a hot streak is coming his way soon (quotes via The Athletic&#8217;s Fabian Ardaya ). &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m gonna get hot. I&#8217;m still doing OK, and obviously not what I want. But I&#8217;m hovering and treading water. In this game, it&#8217;s mostly, 85 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Freeman thinks the hot streak is coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,202,58],"class_list":["post-17923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}