Ben Nicholson-Smith

He's in his age 27 season.

We've seen him hit 48 home runs in the major leagues before.

It sure would be nice at a time that others are not producing or others are not healthy to see Vlad Jr.

have

18 home runs at this point in the season or 13 or 14 or whatever the number would be um and the fact is he's got three so is what it is at this point they have to find a way just to flesh out that offense so it's a good thing for them that Kazuma Okamoto's hitting some opposite field bombs and Jesus Sanchez seems to have found uh his his power stroke Johandric Pignango keeps having these two hit games Arnie Clement is having just quietly a really really good offensive season so I

They need those things to continue.

And then ideal world, you know, you have Charles McAdoo run into a few more baseballs and maybe David Schneider can find a way to heat up at AAA.

He's walking a ton down there, by the way, not striking out, also not really swinging or hitting yet.

He's just walking almost all the time at AAA.

But, you know, you need those supplementary players to step up and provide, you know, some more offense at a time that Vladdy's not hitting home runs.

Yeah, I think that is safe to say.

And to an extent, it's like, hey, if they're not throwing strikes, what can he do?

But, you know, I don't know.

He's got to find a way to show that he can do some damage because Major League pitchers are going to be finer.

They're going to have more precision.

They're going to have a better plan of attack.

So for the next time that David Schneider is called up, he has to have an answer to them, a better answer to Major League pitching.

But hey, in the meantime, I mean, shout out to Charles McAdoo for finding a way to hit a home run in what was a huge game, really led by rookies in that game against the Orioles, where you have Adam Macko's first career start.

You have Braden Fisher's first career save.

You have McAdoo's first career home run.