EastCoastAgNc said:
txags92 said:
EastCoastAgNc said:
Two words that we are terrible at…situational hitting. We don't bunt strategically, we don't steal bases enough, we don't hit behind runners, we don't hit sac flies. We swing for the fences and pound the ball into the ground right at the shortstop when we have runners on base. We get plenty of hits and have plenty of baserunners, but we have an absolutely braindead set of hitters when it comes to what to do with runners on base ahead of them.
Also, the pitching has fallen off a cliff. Good pitching made up for a lot of the offensive issues up to this point.
I wanted an arm badly - some on here strongly disagreed and I understand because there was a big need for bats as well.
Spencer should be fine once he gets ramped back up - that's a plus.
I have no faith in Luis Garcia. He's extremely out of shape. The organization is managing their expectations here as well. Edit to add: I know before the injury the team had planned on transitioning him into a high leverage bullpen arm. They think his stuff could be elite out of the bullpen. I'm not sure if that's still the plan, but I believe it is.
Javier could turn out just fine but will need time to get ramped back up. He looked bad his last rehab start but I'm not too concerned yet. It's just going to take time - the concern isn't "if" but "when" as far as him contributing.
LMJ is LMJ. I personally think his days as a legitimate contributor are behind him.
I think you'll take anything you can get from JP France.
