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Green’s message: Stay present, stay disciplined
- Updated: August 17, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG — Whether it be because of injuries, trades or other necessities, some Padres prospects have gotten the call to the Major Leagues sooner than expected. As with such moves, some growing pains for the young players were to be expected.
Manager Andy Green doesn’t want the players pressing too hard, reminding them to stay disciplined at the plate after they scored just six runs in the past four games.
“You have to be really stubborn with what you do well and stay true to that,” Green said. “We are a team that needs to have the ball down in the zone to be successful, and if you look back the last few days, we have a ton of swings up in the upper third of the zone and balls out of the zone.”
Green would like his players to avoid thinking of the opportunity to play in San Diego as a tryout for 2017. Going out …
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