April All-Star Team: Wil Myers
- Updated: May 5, 2015
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It seems like it gets earlier every year, but Major League Baseball has already released their All-Star Game ballots, and you can start voting now for your favorite player. Here’s more information on how to do that. In the meantime, let’s make the case for just one deserving member of the San Diego Padres… Wil Myers.
Sure, the Padres have Matt Kemp who played in every April game and led the team in hitting, but Wil Myers has been the most impressive member of the San Diego Padres this year, especially when considering the Padres weren’t sure what they were going to get from him after a season in Tampa Bay in 2014 where he only slashed .222/.294/.320.
Now, though, Myers led the league in at-bats, games played, and runs scored in April, and slashed .286/.307/.480 with a team-leading four home runs and another seven doubles in the month.
Sure, he’s only walked twice against 20 strikeouts, and sure, there are a couple selections better on the Padres than Myers, but even though he’s a less-obvious choice, he’s no less important to the club.
With 28 hits in just his first 23 games, Myers is anchoring the top of the order in San Diego and proving that maybe Petco Park is a better locale for hitters than most people think (let alone the damage he did in Denver in the middle of April in a road series against the Rockies).
In an era where there aren’t as many true leadoff men around the game, and yet teams are still focused on high on-base percentage players to man the top spot in the order, it’s refreshing to see someone with Myers’ pop handle duties at or near the top of San Diego’s batting order and make life hell for pitchers right from the outset of games.
And, after winning Rookie of the Year in 2013, and then suffering through a bad year in 2014, it looks like Myers may have overcome his sophomore slump and that, hey, maybe A.J. Preller knows a thing or two in that general manager position, too.
Kemp (and maybe even Yangervis Solarte) certainly deserve All-Star nods, but a big part of the Padres’ success this year has to start with Wil Myers for his great work coming back after a down year last summer, helping to anchor the Padres’ outfield and batting order.
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