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And are next-to-last in walks.
Of course, that probably makes your point for you. Smoak and Ackley are both supposed to have BBs as part of their offensive contributions, and so far they've walked once more COMBINED than Brendan Ryan has by himself.
2011: first in Ks, last in walks
2010: second in Ks, next to last in walks
2009: 6th in Ks, last in walks
2008: last in Ks, last in walks
So we've come from tentative, protective swings and having pitchers attack us without fear, to being aggressive windmills at the plate...while pitchers attack us without fear. Gotta scare pitchers off the plate by slamming balls all around the yard, but we're not doing that yet. We can't string hits together or get runners in. Frustrating.
One of these weeks we're gonna play a bad team, right? We get 3 games with Minnesota after this, then back to the grindstone. DET / NY / BOS back-to-back-to-back. A small (road) breather and then it's division rivals.
Not getting easier, fellas. Better figure out how to score against good teams and not just get random hits, because we're playing a lot of em. Figuring out how to earn a walk would help too.
~G