Willy Adames (30), whose batting average fell to the 10% range after suffering a severe batting slump at the beginning of the season, was also placed in the batting order right in front of Lee Jung-hoo.
San Francisco announced its starting lineup ahead of an away game against the Los Angeles Angels in the 2025 Major League Baseball (MLB) regular season at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on the 21st (Korea Standard Time).
On the day, San Francisco Giants players Elliot Ramos (left fielder), Willie Adames (designated hitter), Lee Jung-hoo (center fielder), Matt Chapman (third baseman), Wilmer Flores (designated hitter), Luis Matos (right fielder), Tyler Fitzgerald (second baseman), David Villa (first baseman), and Sam Huff (catcher) were the starting pitchers for the team. Right-handed veteran Justin Verlander.
Villa, who was called up from Triple-A on the 20th, will replace Ramonte Wade Jr., who has recently been in a severe batting slump, as the starting first baseman.
Wade Jr., who was selected as the team's leadoff this season by showing off his extraordinary on-base ability for the past two seasons, struggled with his batting average in the early 10s and could hardly get out of his poor batting performance. Eventually, he withdrew from the leadoff position and was recently placed at the bottom of the lineup, but he also had no hits in three at-bats in the game on the 20th, and his batting average fell to 0.091.
Villa played in 15 games this season for the Sacramento River Cats, a triple-A team under San Francisco, and posted a batting average of 0.368 (21 hits in 57 at-bats) with one home run, seven RBIs and an OPS of 0.878.
On the other hand, Adames, who, like Wade Jr., has been unable to escape from his poor batting performance since the opening, was placed in the second batting order. He joined the team by signing a seven-year, $182 million (about 259.17 billion won) FA contract with San Francisco ahead of this season, and last year, he hit .251 32 home runs, 112 RBIs and career highs in 161 games for the Milwaukee Brewers. 먹튀검증
Coach Bob Melvin placed right-handed slugger Adames between left-handed Wade Jr. and Lee Jung-hoo to try to create synergy, but things didn't go as he thought. Adames has played in 21 games so far, posting a batting average of 0.190 (16 hits in 84 times at bat) with one homer, nine RBIs and an OPS of 0.540 for this season. Far from home runs, the on-base percentage is only 0.266, which is not functioning as a normal table setter.
No matter how hot Lee Jung-hoo has been recently, it is not desirable for the offensive flow to be cut off right in front of him. Lee's batting average in scoring position is 0.412, the highest in his team. However, the number of times he has played at bat in scoring position is only 17, following Flores (28 times), Chapman (23 times), and Ramos (21 times), the third.