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Originally Posted by siberian khatru
It should concern you, because the total is unacceptably low. Nobody's saying they should be a power team, but they are less than half the league average (20 vs. 47). That's just way too few. That makes runs too hard to come by for a team already struggling to amass baserunners (see below), and it also means opposing pitchers don't have to worry about making mistakes in the strike zone, because those balls are going to stay in the park.
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The reason power doesn't concern me is because there was only 3 players I expected to have any power on this team and one of them is in Omaha right now. Hosmer and Butler sucking is what concerns me. The rest of them are pretty much expected.