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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Have to admit it's a little disappointing seeing some of the underperformers with the bat from last season hitting terrible to start this season as well.
Hopefully they can get this turned around but if it continues we might see a major shift happen with the core this year.
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They won't turn this around. They are not underperforming at all. This is who they are. There is one player on this team that can hit around .300. Hell, I'd argue that there is one player that can hit over .270. One. Thats just not good enough to be a top team in the league.
I'm so tired of seeing media talk about various hitting stats as if they somehow are more meanigful than a guys ability to actually hit the ball....yes...theyre important and interesting stats....but batting average seems to still be a pretty good indicator if a guy can actually hit. This team, in general, cant hit. The starting second basemen hit .235 last year. Our starting LF hit .220. The RF hit .258. The CF hit .265 (which was a blessing!). Our current 3B hit .242 last year, which was 2 percentage points higher than last years 3B who also sucked at hitting. The media is going on about missing Danny Jansen....he hit .228 last year!
Who is going to actually hit for average on this team?