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SS Joey Ortiz continues to be StL's 2nd best position player, behind Anthony. He's solid, great defense, gets on base at an above average rate, and enough SLG.

If Anthony wants to develop into a .300-30-100 guy, like the George Brett type bat I was hoping for, I'll be tremendously excited. No way he keeps this up .... I'd like to see ~.300-20-90, with high OBP.

Barossa jumped out red hot, batting like .728 over the first 8 games or so, and then just shut down.

C Drew Romo had an amazing 1st half 2 seasons ago, and then stopped hitting, so he was demoted to 3A to work on it. He spent the entire '26 season in the minors and appears to have figured out the hitting to some degree .... but he's likely not this good at the plate, but an elite defensive catcher.

Adolis Garcia's counting stats at the end of the 1st week are not drastically different than his counting stats at the end of the month. Red hot, then not. 1 BB, 19 K.

I keep trying to give Maurico and Moore playing time at 3B/1B, hoping one of them sticks and solves at least one problem. They are not.