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Like the paper towel maker Brawny, outfielder Ryan Braun is the Brewers quicker picker upper.
I think back to the the month of July of last year, during which he hit 11 homers, scored 18 runs, and drove home 25 while flirting with a .400 average. Braun was in something of a slump to start the season, though still putting up reasonable numbers, but something has seemed to click since he picked up a pink bat for Mothers Day/Breast Cancer Awareness day last Sunday.
“There was something about those bats,” Braun told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “All the guys were saying it, even in the batting cage. They just felt right. They felt harder and the ball sounded louder coming off them.”
He quickly clubbed a homer with one of his other black-finish bats, to dispute his superstition. It wasn’t his impressive bomb off Cardinals’ pitcher Adam Wainwright that impressed his manager Ned Yost though. Yost cited a more modest at-bat in the Brewers’ big third inning that convinced his young slugger was officially out of his funk. After swinging at a first-pitch curveball in the dirt with runners on second and third and one out, Braun adjusted and worked a six-pitch walk.
“That’s a situation where he gets so anxious, trying to drive those runs in, because he’s a run producer,” Yost said. “That opened up a big inning for us, because it allowed the other guys to do what they do. When I saw that at-bat, I knew ‘Braunie’ was back to being the Ryan Braun we know.”
Fantasy owners look like they could be in line for another big month in the mold of last July. Hopefully you didn’t buy into all the analysts claiming he’d be a bust this season, because it’s clear that for the Brewers and fantasy teams alike, he can indeed be a quicker picker upper.
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