One of the very few on this team. Shortened up his swing and focused on contact.professional hitter that guy DJ is.
Missing Sevy, Paxton, German and Kahnle is a lot to overcome. Cashman didn't address this.Boone is a terrible manager, Sanchez is terrible defensively, but made some key plays offensively. Stressful and exhausting win.
I still don’t think this team goes anywhere. I’m glad we made it out of round 1, but we only have one Cole and our pitching overall just isn’t good enough.
Hicks is not a number three hitter.
Chap looks real good so far
Breaking: I was actually impressed by that series.
He's definitely made some really questionable plays on fly balls this year.He's an extremely weird hitter. He's a low average hitter but he walks a ton (3rd highest BB% this year) and has a slightly above average K% so he's not striking out a ton. I think they have him third to break up the RH bats and to get on base for the middle of the order. He's flawed but I'm more annoyed with his getting hurt every year and how it's made him timid in CF. He had a play on that game tying double and he pulled up on it.
That splitter/forkball he developed is filthy, gives him a better off-speed pitch to RH batters and going forward, I think it's really going to help him as his FB velo starts to drop.
Funny enough, I'm kinda was ho-hum on it. More of the same as they showed the same strengths: working counts, not chasing pitches, power, Cole, Chapman. ....and the same weaknesses: the rest of the pitching staff and Boone's in-game managing.
You know I'm usually positive but I fear they'll get curb stomped by the Rays but I guess we'll see.
Yeah and I actually think he's kinda got like the fielding yips. He doesn't want to bang into the wall or dive for a play because he fears injury and then not living up to his contract.He's definitely made some really questionable plays on fly balls this year.