Good Start For The Offense

Well we needed a boost out of the gate with Prior's injury and we are getting it. This looks a lot like our offense last year. Beating up on poor pitching teams, only to slow down against the better pitching ones and coming back to reality. Unlike last years team the lineup seems to be producing from top to bottom.

           BA    HR  RBI  Runs   OBP 


Walker    .346    2   10    13  .462


Patterson .292    3    8    13  .352


Sosa      .303    5   10    13  .410


Alou      .353    7   18    14  .405


Ramirez   .333    5   16    12  .364


Lee       .254    2   11    11  .352


Barrett   .304    4   12     9  .346


Gonzalez  .283    2    5    10  .309

Walker already has 10 RBI in 15 games. That is 25% of the way to Mark Grudz's total of 38 RBI in 121 games. Just another reason why Walker needs to play over Grudz.

Everyone is hitting reasonably well and contributing to the offensive load. If this continues along this pattern for the rest of the season it means this team will be less likely to fall into an offensive droughts. What i like the most is the OBP's. Take out Alex Gonzalez and the lowest OBP is .346 from Barrett. Very nice indeed.

Last April Sosa had to carry the offensive load just for us to be competitive. That is not happening this year. While he had a great month last year that pressing at the plate cost him as the season wore on. Sosa can now just be patient and let the game flow to him, because the RBI and the HR's will come to Sosa anyways.