Though San Francisco president of baseball operations Buster Posey urges persistence with Willy Adames, the slumping Giants shortstop should be a motive for concern.
Adames, who signed a seven-year, $182M contract as a free agent in the offseason, is just hitting .208 with 5 residence runs and 25 RBI in 56 video games by means of Thursday. In 2024 with the Milwaukee Brewers, he batted .251 with 32 residence runs and had a career-high 112 RBI.
“It is not unusual when celebrity gamers signal an enormous deal and battle out of the gate,” Posey mentioned Thursday on KNBR’s “Murph & Markus” show, “We noticed it with [Philadelphia’s] Trea Turner, we noticed it with Francisco Lindor [of the New York Mets]. You’re seeing to an extent with [the Mets’] Juan Soto this yr. So be affected person. … Willy is a dude.”
Persistence, nevertheless, may quickly put on skinny for the power-needy Giants, who’re in third place, three video games again of first-place Los Angeles. San Francisco is coming off getting swept by the first-place Detroit Tigers in a three-game collection and heads right into a weekend collection on the highway in opposition to the Miami Marlins.
Adames has 11 multi-hit video games for the Giants, however he is solely 2-for-17 (each singles) in his previous 5 video games. The Giants are 19th in Major League Baseball with 55 home runs.
If Adames’ stoop deepens, maybe even Posey will grow to be involved.
