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“PADRES–WHAT SHOULD YOU THINK”
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So we have started the Padres season with a bit of a thud infront of all these sellouts at Petco Park.
We know about needing patience to sort thru the injury situations in the starting rotation of the pitching staff. 1-tough outing does not mean the season is headed for bad times if your name is Nick Pivettta or Michael King or Walker Buehler.
Take the big picture approach to see if they stay healthy, if there is improvement.
But what about the batting order.
Please remember history in 2025 won’t you?
Not a great hitting team last summer. Negligible power.
Then a post season in which everyone stopped hitting and the season run seemed to burn to the ground.
And this spring, a rather anemic set of statistics in the .500-Cactus League season the Friars played.
And here we are, in the middle of this series opening game against the Giants.
As I write they have just 2-hits against San Francisco; this after showing little offense in losing 2-of-3 to the Tigers.
As of this hour, these are the batting averages of the guys in the Padres batting order:
..Cronenworth (.214)
..Machado (.182)
..Merrill (.154)
..Castellanos (.145)
..Sheets (.000)
..Campusano (.000)
A small sample size-for sure. But a trend that started last summer, runs thru the spring, and now into the regular season.
Collective team batting average at this hour (.188).
Not sure what to make of all this, except to say, it is a 162-game schedule. But they sure are not hitting.
Swinging Friar…more like Swing & Miss Friars.
