Rounding up the action at the Padres’ minor league affiliates
What he’d been missing during this unorthodox path through professional baseball — from spending the COVID year at the alternate site to losing the second half of 2021 at Double-A San Antonio to a leg injury to playing in the majors before sniffing Triple-A — is reps.
Abrams has three homers while penning a .405/.450/.595 batting line over that stretch, which includes scalding a 108.3 mph homer to right on Tuesday. Abrams has also cut his strikeout rate to 10 percent over his last 16 games after striking out in 25 percent of his plate appearances over his first 11 games.“It was a lot of balls that I was hitting right to people,” Abrams said. “A lot of exit velos were up there. I was hitting them at people then and they’re falling now.
“Just play,” El Paso manager Jared Sandberg said. “He’s got all the talent in the world and he can overmatch pitchers with fastballs up in the zone, off-speed down in the zone, fastballs down in the zone, off-speed up in the zone. It’s more about the pitches he’s swinging at and not chasing the pitcher around the zone and not chasing outside the strike zone, especially under the zone. We’ve talked a lot to him about eliminating that chase under the zone.
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