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The Outfield Dilemma: Eighth Weekly Update

Denis Poroy

In order to give San Diego students a fun last week of summer, the Padres had seven home games, and went 5-2 in said games, but being the Padres we couldn't have had a completely positive week. There's been more then enough words written about Mike Dee and the B.S. Plaza, so I will spare you the trouble of reading more then these words. Without further ado (i've always wanted to write that), the breakdown of last weeks starters:

Smith-6

Almonte-6

Venable-4

Liriano-3

Maybin-2

Except for the constant bunting, Bud was pretty logical this week, and picked a decent lineup. He started Smith against all righties, and Almonte, in all but one game, but he also made the mistake of giving Venable any starts. Venable has no future with this team past next year, but Liriano is young, and has multiple years left with the team, so there's no point in not giving him playing time on a team that isn't competing.

Will Venable: Nineteen plate appearances (though he bunted in one), three hits, six strikeouts, yet this man keeps playing as more then just a pinch hitter. I hate Will Venable. Venable's OBP and slugging percentage's have dropped six (.282) and eight points (.319) respectively, his K% has gone up .3% to 24.9%, and his BB% dropped to 7%. All of these are below average, sucks our replacements aren't much better.

Seth Smith: The superstar really struggled last week, and only got one hit in 27 attempts, but that Seth guy has a good eye, and walked six times, which dropped his OBP ten points, to .381, but still too many points above Grandal's. Seth's six walks raise his already career high walk rate past Paul Goldschmidt's 13.7% and into seventh in the league, at 13.8%. His three strikeouts lower his career low strikeout rate to 16.0, so he's still talented.

Cameron Maybin: I mentioned that Liriano should play over Venable because of the additional years of control and younger age, and this applies to Maybin too, though he isn't significantly younger then Venable. In his eight at bats, Maybin got one single, and one strikeout, dropping his OBP seven points to .281, and his slugging down ten to .354, his K% improved .3%, and is now better then league average, by a whole .1%.

Carlos Quentin: He's Carlos Quentin, you know where he is.

Abraham Almonte: He's been better then expected as a Padre, he had a home run, six singles, and four walks in his 29 plate appearances, but he also struckout six times. His OBP is now at .289 as a Padre, and his slugging is at .341, so he's basically Cameron Maybin. His K% as a Padre is now 19%, but his entire major league K% is at 27.6%, still a small, not even three hundred at bat sample though.

Hunter Renfroe: I mentioned that Renfroe needs a strong end to the season, and he finished pretty well. Renfroe finally got another AA home run on Monday, in addition to his seven walks, three singles and a steal last week are a nice end to the season, but he struckout nine times, and will probably have to repeat AA next year, but maybe he can reach the majors when rosters expand next September.

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