A lot of folks, me included, want to bag on Mabry for the poor offense. But when you consider last year's team, which ended up 3rd in runs scored in the NL, against this year you can clearly see a big issue. Last year they led the league in HRs. But they either didn't re-sign or traded away 84 of those. The only hitter they picked up was Fowler. Dex has never hit more than 17. He sure isn't going to hit 84 bombs. The plan obviously was to score more runs without the HRs. But when your top two in the order are hitting .223 and .230 you're just not going to score many runs. And when you run the bases so poorly you're not going to gain many there either. Jed has been a pleasant surprise but I don't expect him to hit .300 for the year and I don't expect Pham to stick around and hit .300 either. I'm not sure how much we can blame Mabry for the woes. I suppose with the Memphis hitting coach being brought up we'll find out over the next few weeks. I've also always liked Pop Warner in the minor leagues. Maybe he can have some positive impact on the younger guys.
Offense
- Thread starter oldroundballer
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We just don't have the personnel this year. The management hasn't spent the money and taken the initiative to give us the horses we need to contend. Outside of starting pitching, our team doesn't have a "plus" quality in any aspect of the game
Lot of truth to this. At this point, you could say every regular outside of Wong and Gyorko has been a disappointment offensively. Hard to be very successful when that happens. I wasn't necessarily in the camp the Birds needed to add a big bopper at any cost. But if you'd have told me Marp, Fowler, Piscotty, Diaz, and Grichuk would all be awful to this point I'm sure I'd have had a different opinion.
And good move getting rid of peralta...we have been trying to get rid of him, broxton and grichuk months before moz had the guts to get rid of him
I'd pump the brakes on Grichuk. I'm not in favor of shipping him off ala Adams. Didn't understand Adams for a bag of balls. Surely wouldn't understand Grichuk for a bag of balls either. Nothing wrong with Grichuk in Memphis trying to workout his inability to identify a slider.
