What you should and shouldn’t panic about

Not so long ago, the dishes were the best team in baseball. No later than June 12, the Amazins flew high, after winning 16 of the 20 games and apparently arrested a spiral before the start. Juan Soto began to produce as expected, pitching staff were healthy and the brave of Atlanta did not seem to buy a victory.

It was an enviable position. However, are you swept by Pittsburgh pirates? Extremely unvatable, to say the least.

As the deadline for exchanges of July 31 approaches, the dishes still have time to turn around, but not much. A little more halfway through the season, this is what is worth panicking, and what is not.

Panic: start pitching

The start of pitching turned out to be the largest catalyst for the ultra-hot start of the team, but without the presence of AS, things feel different. Since Kodai Senga set out his hamstrings by trying to cover the first goal of June 12, the dishes have also lost Tylor Megill in front of a sprain of the elbow and the tout of Griffin for the season with an Achilles-broken tendon. Vibrations have moved significantly.

“You are certainly aware of this, in particular the launchers,” said right -hander Clay Holmes recently. “And these are really good launchers. He is undeniable. It’s hard to lose these guys, but at the same time you have to believe in [depth] The guys and do everything we can to be the best versions we are. »»

Overall, pitch staff was not the best version of themselves in June. Starters and lifts combined to publish a 4.80 MPM, the fifth worse of baseball at that time. The left -hander David Peterson, a staff loyal, has lost two of his last three decisions after launching a complete laundering granting 13 deserved points. The right -hander Paul Blackburn has an MPM of 10.54 in 13 2/3 rounds since he launched five aimless in Los Angeles. They need Sean Manaea Sean Gaucher.

AAs are interested in negotiating Luis Severino, in particular after his critical comments on the situation of Sacramento Ballpark. His home / route divisions are drastic this season, the right-hander displaying an MPM of 6.79 at the Triple-to Sutter Health Park, and an MPM of 3.23 on the road, attributing better road numbers to pitch in the Large League parks. Although he still has two years on his contract after this season at a high price, it could be worth the price because the food know exactly what they get.

Do not panic: enclosures of lifters

The enclosure of listers allows 35% of the runners inherited to mark this season. Part of this can be attributed to execution. A part is probably because the enclosure of the readers was quite taxed. The starters did not launch deeply constantly all the season, and with the way the injury bug struck the rotation, the dishes needed listers to take over. New are constantly being transported from front of Syracuse to wherever the food play.

The good news is that Brooks Raley will come back soon, giving the food a high effect and someone who can get out of the left -handed strikers at the end of the games. It is also easy to take aid to aid on the deadline for trade.

Sweet panic: Lindor’s crisis

The dishes follow the path of Francisco Lindor, and he was spoiled in his own crisis this month. A crucial team leader at the top of the programming, Lindor hit only 0.204 with a .628 OPS and four circuits. During the last stretch of 13 games, Lindor only reached 0.151. However, a part can be attributed to bad luck, with a .215 babip.

However, a number is slightly worrying: its average strikers on the road. 200 for the season could be a factor in the record of the 19-25 route.

Lindor is someone able to find ways to put the ball into play and do damage. It is unlikely that he will continue to hit like this throughout the season, but if this crisis persists, the dishes will have even more problems.

Do not panic: coaches staff

For a strange reason, the Internet has turned to hit the coach Eric Chavez, blaming him for everything, food numbers with runners in the rating position (.217 average, second in baseball), to the development of Francisco Alvarez plateau. The reality is that a strike coach has very little to do with the development of players and the overall decision -making of the team.

The best teams have individual plans for strikers and launchers adapted to strengths and weaknesses, which is exactly as well as the dishes work with Chavez, Jeremy Barnes and the rest of the typing group. The players respect Barnes and Chavez for their various skills sets, and with Chavez, they believe that the 17 -year -old MLB veteran has a richness of knowledge in the game.

Pinting all the offensive difficulties of the dishes on a typing coach is silly, and pinning Alvarez’s difficulties on any coach is just as silly. The recipient asked for help during the winter to correct certain bad habits in his swing, something about each player at some point. This is why installations and transmission exist.

Did Alvarez take too much too much by completely revising the swing that brought him to the big leagues? Maybe. It takes a long time to get used to new typing mechanisms and with the training injury in the spring, Alvarez did not have time.

“I have the impression that some of the things he worked on during the offseason were legitimate,” said manager Carlos Mendoza recently. “Not only do you work to make this drastic adjustment, but it drops with an injury. It lacks almost a whole spring formation, then it must go through a rehabilitation process and before knowing it, it is in competition at the level of the big league, and we know how good the pitching is.”

Panic: National League

The dishes cannot control what the other teams do and do not, but if San Diego and San Francisco are responsible on the deadline for trade, it could become more difficult to push the competition in a joker race. The objective is to win the division, and the dishes are always just in the course of 1.5 games behind the phillies of Philadelphia, but the brave are able to run a race and the central teams of NL will seek to take care to do their own shopping.

We do not know what type of talent the dishes are ready to separate on the deadline, but the president of the baseball operations, David Stearns, previously declared that no prospect was completely prohibited. However, the owner Steve Cohen showed that he was not afraid to reset himself on the deadline if he considers that the team does not have what it takes to face.

The NL is again the most competitive league this year, with more teams looking for a place in playoffs than available spots.