We'll continue to give him a chance, I know they're all capable of hitting at a much higher clip they're just not doing it for whatever reason. "We are on our third centerfielder, Mickey is getting a chance. "We're not happy with thats going on," manager Joe Girardi said Monday night. T he team is wasting good pitching, like they did Monday night as Chase Anderson and the bullpen held San Francisco to two runs and the Phils went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position and left 11 guys on base.Ī lot of the blame goes to the bottom of the order, where the center field spot has been historically bad (and usually hits 8th), and Andrew McCutchen has been struggling at the leadoff spot. Philly has scored two or fewer runs six times in less than a month - which is not good. The most noteworthy of these is runs per game, where the team last year scored more than 30% more. The Phillies' 2020 offense, which failed to make the playoffs in last year's truncated 60-game campaign, was in the top 10 in most offensive categories. But their mediocre numbers at the plate need to improve.
At 8-8, it's too early to tell on that front.
The conventional wisdom heading into this current season was that if the Phillies could solve their awful bullpen, which they have so far, and improve their lackluster defense just a little bit, they'd be a team contending for a playoff spot. President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski and the front office brought back almost the exact same lineup, with seven of eight 2020 regulars starting every day in 2021 (center field and Mickey Moniak/Roman Quinn being the exception). However, the drop off in production from a season ago - when the Phils were among the most productive in the league - is something worth noting. Kevin Cooney: Phillies center field issues are part of a much larger problem.The Phillies have options to fix their fifth starter problem.Fan who fell trying to secure home run ball during Phillies-Giants game is a baseball collector.
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Which is why the Phillies struggling at the plate through their first 16 games (just over 10% of the full season), is concerning, but not yet alarming. The long season, 162 games, often assures that the law of averages prevails, and bad luck is more or less eliminated by a gigantic sample size. Even the best hitter in Major League Baseball fails two out of every three times.
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