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As you all know, I projected a breakout year for Smoak this year...so perhaps my observation is biased by expectation and ST results, but to my eye, he appears calm and focused at the plate and he's hitting a lot of at 'em balls. Had two very hard outs last night...a HR to CF that died 3 feet short, and a double to RCF that happened to find the RFer's glove. Then he got on top of a real good high fastball and raked a ball right at the third baseman on one hop.
So...not worried about Smoak yet. What worries me is that he'll get away from the calm and relaxed approach if his numbers don't start showing up soon.
I'm much more worried about Montero. He is having, easily, the worst at bats on the team when not facing a lefty.