Sometimes, when you try to go too fast, you just end up spinning your wheels. That’s what this week felt like. There’s severe urgency to make a change and climb up the standings, but we keep spinning in place.
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Hitting Review
Even in a bit of a down week, it’s hard to find too much fault with the offense. The lack of options – combined with Tyler O’Neill’s trip to the injured list and Seth Brown’s paternity leave – probably cost us some at-bats and production, but overall we’ll take it.
We were back to getting elite production from our pair of Contreras brothers behind the dish. It was William Contreras getting back to his early season form – hitting .360 with six runs scored, seven RBI and a homer. Meanwhile, the elder brother did his part as well, crushing a pair of homers with four runs scored and five RBI. I know I’ve mentioned it at length this season, but getting elite production from both catcher spots is such a massive advantage.
Paul Goldschmidt didn’t do anything too special, but managed to hit a home run and steal a base while driving in four runs on the week. If he did just that every week, I’d be perfectly fine.
Xavier Edwards is an absolute stud. He’s going to wind up being one of our top FAAB additions of the season along with Jurickson Profar and Trevor Megill. He has basically filled in the production that Luis Rengifo was providing and then some. Edwards swiped a whopping five bases on the week while hitting .267 with four runs scored. We’ll take the zeros in homers and RBI if he can keep doing that.
Ezequiel Tovar didn’t bring the average this week, but he homered, scored four runs and plated three. That’s good enough.
Another monster week from Jose Ramirez, but that’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from our superstar third baseman. He slugged a pair of long balls and swiped three bases to go with four runs, four RBI and a .321 average.
David Fry is still seeing action in the outfield for us since we’re low on alternatives at the moment. He only had three hits on the week, but two of them left the yard, making it a worthwhile week for him.
Max Kepler is becoming a problem. He played a lot this week, but they were very empty at-bats, hitting .240 with one run scored and nothing else. Blah.