2025 Player Outlook

Julien hit under the Mendoza line in 2024, and that .199 average is quite the eye sore when looking at numbers from last year. A strong 11 percent walk rate propped up his OBP to .292, and his hard contact and quality of contact rates from 2023 did not carry over to 2024. He saw far fewer fastballs, and he hit just .120 with a 41.3 percent whiff rate against breaking pitches. Minnesota won't send him out there against southpaws, so he'll operate in a platoon in the Minnesota lineup. The talent is there and worth betting on, and while I'm confident he won't be as bad in 2025 as he was in 2024, but a 30+ percent strikeout rate and career .217 xBA doesn't instill much confidence in projecting his batting average for anything more than .230.