Willy Adames continues to smile during the first difficulties with the giants SF – The Mercury News

San Francisco – Willy Adames was a smile in the process of caught up the former teammates before the giants were hosting his former team, the Brewers Milwaukee on Monday.

It was the same joyful behavior that the stop a stop has hitherto posted with his new club, even if he has not played the $ 182 million contract over seven years that he signed with San Francisco. The giants started hot, but most of the time, despite their new franchise stop.

“Performance will not change the way I play the game,” said Adames in his locker in the Giants’ Home Club-Home. “It’s a long season and there will be dark moments as well as incredible moments. This is why I do not change. I cannot change the atmosphere, change the energy for boys because I am not doing very well. Some guys kill him. I have to support them. And I have to support guys who do not do very well, like me.”

Adames has spent the last four seasons in Milwaukee, receiving MVP votes twice and leading the Brewers to three appearances in the playoffs, but was not up to this game through 22 games with the Giants. He entered the stick in the stick .202 with a .554 OPS, five additional strokes, nine goals on bullets and 26 stick withdrawals in 99 trips on the plate.

During his eight -year career, Adames has a .766 OPS – more than 200 points more than his brand so far in San Francisco.

“Listen, it swings the bat as well as now.” I think you can put a little pressure from time to time when you arrive in a new place and you do not go well. But I think the bats improve. “

The beloved status of Adames in the Brewers clubhouse was obvious by the number of men in naval and gold costume coming to him behind the hinge cage before the match on Monday. It was part of the call to Buster Posey, and the management of Adames managed to shine even while he is looking for his swing.

“The enthusiasm with the way he plays, I think, picks up for everyone. Just an extremely sympathetic guy,” said Melvin, calling him “a key figure in our clubhouse-and we feel like we have a very close clubhouse.”

The Brewers have evolved with Joey Ortiz, the internal field player they have acquired from Baltimore for Corbin Burnes, and started the 12-10 season – only two games of the giants. Adames said he “waited at least one call” but had not heard of brewers before concluding his agreement with the giants in early December.

This is the second time that Adames had to make a first impression on a new team, but he refuted the idea that he felt additional pressure. He quickly won the fans in Milwaukee, after posting 3.6 BWAR and a better .886 OPS on 99 games after being exchanged by the Rays in May 2021.

Adames struck. 197 at the time of trade, which, according to him, is typical and explains its slow start with the giants. During his career, Adames has always displayed his worst figures in March and April and was his most successful after the stars break.

“When I click, I just click and it doesn’t disappear,” he said. “It’s just like that, unfortunately, for me. It takes time to go.

Adames lacé a single RBI in the right field in the victory of Saturday against the Angels and led two more points on Sunday with a pair of line readers. It was the first time that this season, Adames had assembled to the Bats that produced consecutive matches, increasing its average by more than 0.200 with its second stroke.

If he found his stroke, it could not have happened at a better time.

While Adames said it was “different” and “a little bizarre” in front of her former teammates for the first time when it matters – “now, it’s, real things”, as opposed to their meeting in spring training – the match he was most impatient is for Wednesday.