[Glaser] Padres 7-9 hitters through July 31: .213, .584 OPS, Padres 7-9 hitters since after July 31: .317, .895 OPS. With the deadline additions of Ramon Laureano and Freddy Fermin, what was the Padres biggest area of weakness is now a strength.
It’s a small sample size, but here’s to hoping they can just keep up the productivity.
This reminds me of the dude on here who swore the 7-9 spots in the lineup was going to hit below .200 this year. Tbh he was closer than I assumed because they rolled out Maldonado instead of Campy all year which I assumed was out of the question at the time but still. Do you realize how hard it would be for 3 spots in a major league lineup to be that bad for an entire season? Some people really just have that pure doomer heart in em I guess.
All the new bats are off to hot starts. Will be interesting to see how this lineup performs once everyone settles in more towards their career norms.
Those pre-31st numbers also include Croney’s .741 OPS in the bottom 3 a lot of the time, so the other 2 were like 20% worse than those numbers suggest. This is literally doubling our production from our 7 and 9 hitters.
Our old buddy Heath Bell talking Padres! Our lineup is so deep now that Sheets has to fight for playing time and frankly.. that makes us strong off the bench too.
We like it long.
Our lineup, that is.
Imagine how good the numbers would look if we hit Manny seventh.
![[Glaser] Padres 7-9 hitters through July 31: .213, .584 OPS, Padres 7-9 hitters since after July 31: .317, .895 OPS. With the deadline additions of Ramon Laureano and Freddy Fermin, what was the Padres biggest area of weakness is now a strength.](https://www.rawchili.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/M2s3bHlwcGg2dWhmMaF7lztGEUZqBtmW9-QThxzjjt_QK3quBzD4126_3AaA-1920x1024.png)
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It’s a small sample size, but here’s to hoping they can just keep up the productivity.
This reminds me of the dude on here who swore the 7-9 spots in the lineup was going to hit below .200 this year. Tbh he was closer than I assumed because they rolled out Maldonado instead of Campy all year which I assumed was out of the question at the time but still. Do you realize how hard it would be for 3 spots in a major league lineup to be that bad for an entire season? Some people really just have that pure doomer heart in em I guess.
All the new bats are off to hot starts. Will be interesting to see how this lineup performs once everyone settles in more towards their career norms.
Those pre-31st numbers also include Croney’s .741 OPS in the bottom 3 a lot of the time, so the other 2 were like 20% worse than those numbers suggest. This is literally doubling our production from our 7 and 9 hitters.
Our old buddy Heath Bell talking Padres! Our lineup is so deep now that Sheets has to fight for playing time and frankly.. that makes us strong off the bench too.
We like it long.
Our lineup, that is.
Imagine how good the numbers would look if we hit Manny seventh.