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Originally Posted by O.city
He's always been a station to station guy, and it's extremely frustrating, especially with the more aggressive approach they're taking this year on the basepaths, Craig not included.
We've really pushed on the paths, going first to third noticably more and generally just being aggressive, which is great, but Craig being on base the amount he is, he needs to be better there.
I'm not really sure I ever see him being a 40 HR guy, but power wise, he hasn't been what you'd like, but he's still driving in runs and getting on base, but you'd like a bit more thud there in that spot. I'm not a huge fan of the "platoon" there having Craig do as I tend to think that might correlate to some of his defensive blunders, but you've got to have Adams in the lineup right now the way he's swinging the bat.
I'd like to see Adams in the 4 hole a little bit to see how that would go.
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He can't bat cleanup right now, IMO.
He doesn't have enough power, he's too slow on the bases and really, he's not good enough at getting on base and working pitchers for guys like Molina and Freese behind him.
He has a nice enough OBP, but its largely BA fueled and that BA comes on the strength of a .357 BABIP, which is exclusively luck given the fact that he isn't beating out any infield base hits. If you equalize his BABIP to .300, he loses
13 basehits. Suddenly his BA drops to .259. At that point he's sporting an OBP of
barely .300 with nominal power.
He's not actually been very good this year. He's been
very lucky. He needs to start drawing walks or hitting for power because expecting him to continue to hit .400 w/ RISP or put up a .360 BABIP is just folly.