00:00Remember that month of April that Fernando Tatis Jr. couldn't hit a home run to save his you-know-what?
00:06He only has eight on the season, and he's probably only going to end up with 15 or 16 or
00:10maybe even less.
00:11But he is hot right now. I'm watching him play right now.
00:14Not having a great series here this weekend in Miami, but he is hitting .280 now on the year.
00:19747 OPS, so still off his career norms. Eight home runs, 47 runs driven in.
00:24I have not seen him go off this weekend, Tom, but certainly the Padres, I think it's fair to say,
00:31along with Tatis.
00:33I mean, you talk about getting hot at the right time.
00:36Padres have, if I'm not mistaken, the most home runs since the All-Star break.
00:40And, you know, A.J. Preller, all he wants is for his teams to sort of just be in it
00:44so he can make a deal.
00:45I think the Padres are going to push and go for this next week.
00:49Yeah, it's good to see Tatis kind of turn things around.
00:52And, you know, frankly, outside of the home runs, you know, when you're looking at the average in the OPS,
00:56it's like, OK, that's fine.
00:58I know the RBIs, again, for a large portion of the season, the Padres were the lowest scoring offense in
01:04the MLB.
01:05So to see their players underperforming when it comes to home runs and RBIs should not be shocking.
01:11But, you know, everyone likes to, you know, kind of rag on him a little bit because he didn't have
01:15the home runs.
01:16But at least he's doing his part as much as he can.
01:18Like if their players aren't on base, then he can't get RBIs, but at least he's picking up the average
01:22and the OPS has stabilized a bit.
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