What's worrying me is that Chapman's against-slashline from around his injury (early May) to now is .345/.424/.414. That's not even counting today, btw. There is no way Yanks keep running him out if he's hurt BUT it's possible his recovery is going more slowly than they had hoped. I found a very similar stretch in 2011, his worst season statistically, his first full season in the bigs.

Chapman only had 5 appearances from May 5th to July 1st in 2011, during that time he was on the DL for most of June.

Care to guess what the injury was? Shoulder, of course.

The profile is different in 2011, Chapman gave up far less contact but walked everyone to the tune of .250/.684/.625.

What conclusions to be made here?

Hopefully it's a similar situation where Chapman needs a few tuneup games after a shoulder injury. The biggest worry for me, however, is that in 2011 he had problems with location, while this year he simply gets hit. It seems like Aroldis has laboured quite a bit, even earlier in the season and the numbers show that his contact rate is by far the highest of his career. He is allowing 73% contact which is really frightening considering his career average is 63%. Are we seeing batters catch up to his FB? His velocity is still there and the