Padres rookie outfielder Jose Azocar is seeing results at plate and in field; Wil Myers expected to start Tuesday
rookie Jose Azocar the other day it was only a matter of time before he got comfortable facing big-league pitchers and they began to fear him.
The average has risen 65 points and the OBP 43 points over his past nine games, as Azocar has gone 8-for-23 with two walks.“You get better and better and better,” he said. “You feel confident at the plate. And all the reports we have on the pitchers, now you start understanding why they say what they say before you go up to hit.”
“He’s doing a nice job, whether it’s with drawing walks, getting on base, hitting the ball the other way,” manager Bob Melvin said. “He made a nice play and a nice throw in the outfield. He’s played really well for a guy that probably was the last guy on the team.”Manny Machado played Monday after a weekend off to let the effects of a cortisone shot set in on his right elbow.
Tatis, who is expected back in late June, worked at the team’s complex in Arizona while the Padres were on their past two road trips. He can do virtually everything while with the team that he was doing there . And this gets him out of the triple-digit heat in Arizona.When Tatis is cleared to swing, he will begin with dry swings and progress to hitting off a tee before hitting in the cage and then taking batting practice and eventually facing live pitching.
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