Brian O'Neill looks at these guys. There was a period last year, about this time, when Mackowiak had posted a 900 OPS for a full year. He learns and gets better. Redman looks like a steal and Ward like a bargain.
To keep playing .550 ball the rest of the year, my sense is that they will need to find a thumper, and quick, or have one of these guys learn and get better. Maybe getting Craig Wilson back in Jim Thome mode would do it. With this pitching, I think a .525 rest-of-the-way, or a .512, is not out of the question. As I counted last week, a .525 has them above .500 to stay in mid-August. A .512 has them fluttering at .500 at the end of the season.
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