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Hey Doc, I agree with the general premise of this article - that what comes first isn't the statistical change, but the mental one.  But I think when a player has leaped a plateau in the way he processes the game mentally, you can see all of the hallmarks of that in the data that follows, and it doesn't take a huge sample to do so.  I shared a lot of that information in the shout box (which seems to not be accepting comments right now, just fyi) which would lead to the same conclusions you have drawn.  He is unhurried up there now, has a soft front side...and it's letting him lay off outside/sucker pitches and target one specific zone in which he wants to hit...the result is more fly balls, higher exit velocities, fewer strikeouts, lower O-Sw%, high Z-CT%...

So not sure I agree with the line: "If you try to analyze Zunino by the numbers you'll be dousing yourself in lighter fluid and lighting a match". :)