Padres: Jackson Merrill Shines, Fernando Tatís Jr. Leads Off

SportsGrid

Watch Padres: Jackson Merrill Shines, Fernando Tatís Jr. Leads Off - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00So let's go over to the San Diego Padres.

00:02They win again, by the way.

00:04So Sam, flip me over to the Padres here.

00:06Jackson Merrill with four runs driven in on opening day.

00:10Of course, a lot of high expectations for him.

00:13In fact, not only did he drive in four runs

00:16on opening day, George,

00:18but he also had three more hits batting

00:21out of the five hole last night

00:23in their win over the Atlanta Braves.

00:25Benny Machado didn't do much yesterday,

00:28but he did have a good opening day also

00:29at 667, so we kind of know who Machado is.

00:32Let's go to Merrill for a minute.

00:34He's got a really good lineup spot.

00:36Tatis has also been on fire here to start.

00:39They have him in the lead off.

00:40I think that that's going to be it.

00:41I think Tatis is going to hit lead off.

00:43I mean, George, he was hitting some lead off in the spring,

00:45but it seemed to catch the writers

00:47by surprise a little bit that he was going to be

00:49like the permanent lead off hitter this season.

00:52But that's very, very important.

00:54Luisa Rice, I believe, led off for them,

00:56if I'm not mistaken,

00:57the majority of last season

00:58when he got traded over there.

00:59What do you make of this move here?

01:02I mean, I'm a little surprised

01:03because Arias does make sense as a lead off guy, right?

01:06Because he gets on base for the big boys.

01:08But I understand Tatis as well,

01:11because he can give you that quick one-nothing lead,

01:13right, with the home run here.

01:14So, listen, as long as Tatis is comfortable with it, fine.

01:17But you want to put Arias as the second hole hitter, okay.

01:22And he's got the righty-lefty thing going there,

01:24righty-lefty.

01:24Maybe that's why they're doing it, right, Tatis?

01:27And the lefty Arias and the righty Machado, lefty Merrill.

01:30We know managers love that,

01:31the righty-lefty, righty-lefty thing.

01:33This way he screws the bullpen up management later.

01:35So I understand that.

01:36So, you know, I don't really mind it either way.

01:39You know, it doesn't really bother me.

01:40It doesn't change my thoughts on Tatis at all here.

01:43Maybe a few less RBI opportunities,

01:45because, you know, he'll get up once with nobody on base

01:48and the rest of the time with the battle of the lineup

01:51hitting in front of him here, so fine.

01:52And I guess the Atlanta Braves are never going to win a game.

01:55Yeah, I'm going to to start the season, yeah, I mean.

Category

Transcript

Recommended