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San Diego Padres Need to Improve in a Number of Areas

Things have not exactly gone to plan for the San Diego Padres offense this season. After 23 games, the team ranks near the bottom of almost every offensive statistical category in the National League. Improvements must be made.

Let’s start from the top. The Friars currently own a .219 team batting average, the worst in the NL behind even the awful Cincinnati Reds (.220).

The team’s .289 on-base percentage also ranks last in the league, behind the San Francisco Giants’ .292 and the Miami Marlins’ (ugh) .297.

The Padres’ slugging percentage of .364 is thirteenth in the NL, but mostly because of Christian Villanueva‘s seven home runs and seven doubles apiece from Eric Hosmer and Jose Pirela.