Mark Venos I had a big thrill playing the day of opening for the first time in his career in the big league, but the first two weeks of the Put“The season was not nice to him in the marble.
The young third goal player only managed three strokes in his first 31 strikes with the balls with two walks in his first eight games. But there are good signs as he Markets three times on Monday before obtaining a simple in the opposite field in the eighth of 10-5 Tuesday victory over the Marlins.
“It was good to see him hit there,” said the manager Carlos Mendoza said, adding that comes too "smoked" A ball in the center (105.5 MPH BATT) for a line to combat the game.
“I think there are good signs there,” said Mendoza, adding that as long as comes "Continue to control the striking area, it will continue to be in the right place. »»
“I like the catches, I like the fact that he executes his match plan,” said the manager.
Going in the other direction could be a way to go back for the third basic player, he entered the day with only 7.4% of the balls struck in this direction. Down 20.8% last year. But Venos could do with a few more hard -hit balls (compared to 46.6% last year at 29.6) and its percentage of Barel is also down, from 14.1% to 7.4
Despite the difficulties on the plate – the reduction of .125 / .239 / .175 so far – the skipper does not see that this goes to the young woman of 25 years.
“He goes there, he is preparing, he plays a good defense, he is engaged,” said Mendoza. “Yes, you want to see certain results as a competitor, but it was good for him to proceed (single).
“After hitting a ball in the central field and not having obtained results, it happens to a point where you could be frustrated, but I saw nothing.”
Brett Baty fight through
Baty caught a simple in three times on Tuesday but could not launch his difficulties at the start of the season.
“He is going through it right now, and he will have to continue fighting,” said Mendoza. “There is time when I have the impression of late, they attack it early in the count, they get ahead. And it is missing its throws. It is difficult to hit 0-1, 0-2 a lot.”
Baty has lagged behind 0-1 in 18 of his first 24 sticks in the stick on the young season. Nine of these bats saw it in the 0-2 account. As a result, it has already been removed nine times.
Against the Marlins on Tuesday, the second base player had a better fortune with the counts, taking delay of 0-1 in a single of these bats, but the results remained especially the same as he finished 1-in-3 with a withdrawal on a half-banter in a ball in the area.
He arrived at 2-0 during his first At-Bat, then finished each week on a sweeper above the plate. In his last time, Mendoza noted that he arrived at 3-1 before hitting a simple in the inner field (100.9 MPH during the bat, but with only an expected average of .140, by statcast).
“There were a few bats (Tuesday) where he was in the striker,” said the manager. “And I think that if he starts to do this (by) not to continue or not to miss land when they attack him, he will be fine.
“He must continue to cring him, and he will.”
