Someone remind me why we continue to play Humphries?

[basedog]

I have to laugh when I hear "pressure" for a hitter! Good players live for the moment and have no fear, bad players are scared and worry about failure.

"There's no crying in baseball"!

[HancockCountyDog]

Hump needs experience, needs at bats, leave him alone he will figure it out.

He is a third of the way through the season, and my biggest issue is that he isn't hitting balls right at people, he is missing the ball.

Just because the guy can hit the ball a long way in BP doesn't mean anything when it comes to having power in game. I hope he gets out of it, but its not like we dont have a decent sample size that shows he might not be ready to contribute.

[tcdog70]

If he just makes contact we score a couple more runs. when we have runners in scoring position please hit the first pitch that is down the middle. Working the count is not an option with Hump. Our younger Hitters also once they get 2 strikes on them their buttholes draw up.Pretty simple plan of Humphreys throw strike one (he takes) then throw breakers outside the zone--K

[Tripp McNeely]

Hump needs the exact same schooling that Wes got in the off-season. Watch Hump's swings over the last couple of games and Wes' from last year. Hump needs to close up the stance and look the other way. He's too open now, and when he dives in, that added motion is skewing his vision on curveballs, causing his shoulder to fly open in reaction to that...and causing him to miss outside curveballs as bad as he did last night.

Wes figured it out. Hopefully Hump will. You close up, you might lose a smidge of power to left, but your plate coverage greatly improves, and you cut down on bookoos of wasted motion.