Chicago – Power was the name of the game to Giants CUR-COURT WILLY ADAMES Since he made his debut in MLB in 2018. And this is a great reason for which he was so coveted before signing A seven year old and $ 182 million agreement with San Francisco last winter.
It may not be surprising that the biggest challenge for Adames in his new house in San Francisco was to manage the strike at Oracle Park, who historically suppressed power, especially for right-handed strikers. Since 2000, Oracle has seen the least circuits of any stadium in the major baseball league.
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Indeed, the new GIANTS judgment had a slow start of the season. It is not unusual, because Adames is historically a slow starter, with his lowest ops per month in March / April. Upon entering the game on Wednesday, it cuts .222 / .305 / .347 with six doubles, four circuits and 19 products produced. And even if it took a little time, Adames struck his first two circuits in Oracle Park SundaySomething he and the giants were waiting for.
Now that he has had a little more than a month to acclimatize to his new house, the Giants stop-court, who spent the first seven seasons of his MLB career with Tampa Bay and Milwaukee, adapts to his new reality.
“It's a little colder,” said Adames with a smile. “For me, I get used to playing outside every day. You know, I have been inside all my career. So now, it's like every day outside in a larger park. …
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“It was a little more difficult than expected, but it's like that. It will be better in summer.”
In the past seven seasons, little stop have struck with Power to match Adames. Only the stop stop puts Francisco Lindor (195) has reached more circuits than the 154 of Adames since the beginning of 2018.
And the reality is that giants need power in their range for a certain time, especially on the right side of the plate. Over the past two decades, the San Francisco offensive has been lacking in the electricity department. It's hard to believe, but no giant has hit 30 circuits in a season since Barry Bonds did it for the last time in 2004. And no right -handed strikers of the giants hit 30 circuits in a season since Jeff Kent accomplished the feat with 37 long balls in 2002.
When Adames signed with the team in December, the hope was that he could be the right to end the drought. But with only four home circuits during the first 37 games of the team, a season of 30 Adames Homhermes looks like a long time.
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“It's difficult, because I have the impression that you did everything well, all perfect, and you still have no positive results,” said Adames about knocking on San Francisco. “Sometimes it puts a little pressure, like:” guy, what should I do? ” »»
If there is someone who knows what it is to go from a friendly stadium for Cavernous Oracle Park strikers, it is Pat Burrell, the coach of the Giants. Burrell, who struck 292 circuits during his 12 -year -old MLB career with the Phillies, Rays and Giants, has played his last two seasons in San Francisco and knows with first hand the adjustments that any hitting moving in Oracle must do.
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“Coming here, it's a whole different stadium,” Burrell told Yahoo Sports. “(Adames was) has definitely struck a lot of bullets here in San Francisco that I think it would probably have been out of the stadium in Milwaukee. But these are the adjustments you make when you change your team.
“We do not want to come here and change who are people. This is not what we are here to do. But you know, in reality, it is not a sidewalk stadium of a home striker. So, what we are trying to do as a team is struck more records.
Adames has a challenge in front of him, and he knows it. But after learning how the baseball stadium is played out during the last month, he started to have an idea of his new house, with the hope that things will finally happen.
The metrics support this optimism. Although its percentage of slugging is only 0.347, the percentage of the expected typing of adames (XSLG) of 0.420 shows that its approach and its quality of contact were there, even if the first results did not follow. In addition, Adames' exit speed at 88.8 MPH is almost identical to his average career, which should give him and giants the confidence he was heading in the right direction. There are reasons to believe that with warmer time will come more circuits at home.
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“You just have to be comfortable and be like” I did my job. I hit him hard. It did not go in my sense, “said Adames. “I have the impression, after the first three or four weeks for me, it was like” ok, forget the results. Continue to hit the ball strongly, and they will start to abandon and maintain this confidence. “”
“I'm going to continue hitting the ball, and each time they fall, they fall.”
