How do you spot a lefty masher?

I was extremely excited to find that our saber-partner, Fangraphs, is now hosting Howard has a .719 OPS in the last 4 years versus LHP. How would we estimate his ""œtrue""" OPS versus LHP? You might be tempted to just use the .719, which is not too good or you might be tempted to use the .719 and then regress that toward the league average ...

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