@@San Diego Padres

[Lin] “It just feels like whenever someone else scores first, it’s like, ‘Oh, s—, trouble.’ You know? That type of feeling,” Bogaerts said.

  • June 26, 2023


This team’s mentality, man 🙃 zero dogs.

“Few people in the industry believe firing another manager (and allowing Preller to choose a fifth manager) or canning yet another hitting coach should be the answer to San Diego’s woes in the batter’s box. Rival scouts say the Padres’ struggles hitting fastballs — they entered Sunday batting a league-worst .230 against the pitch — are more attributable to the composition of the roster, and Preller’s main offensive acquisitions from the offseason have failed to supply much of a jolt.”

13 comments

  3. No heart and no fight in this team. It’s not just when someone else scores first. It’s any time we lose the freaking lead. Oh tie game, bullpen gave up 1 run, games over there’s always tomorrow. No dawg in em is absolutely right. Just a non-competitive vibe on the roster.

  4. I don’t get it. They’ve got a ton of major league experience on this team. How can that be the mentality?

  5. So it’s mental then? Like psychologically they can’t get past thoughts of failure? Sheeeet… pack it up. Come back mentally stronger next year.

  8. If they have this mentality in games, then won’t that kinda translate to the season?

  10. this is kinda bleak actually. said it in a game thread a week or two ago, but it seems like, at times, they don’t even believe in themselves: to hit the ball with risp, to rally, get runs, win games, so how are we as fans, supposed to. i totally understand how discouraging this game and it’s outcomes can be, but man, they need to get all these dudes to talk to a sports psychologist or something. hopefully they loosen up and try to believe good things will happen instead of just lying down and dying.

  12. The team doesn’t compete for each other and they are getting crushed by the expectations to deliver and perform. That’s the feeling he’s talking about. They cannot cope with the pressure and demands.

    It’s totally different when you’re expected to win and everybody is targeting you and they want to beat you.

    It’s really hard to compete at high levels for 162 and play winning baseball. Even with the talent they have, they’ve totally underestimated the need to compete, to fight and earn their wins, while they assumed that they could walk out between the lines and that would be enough.

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