- [McTaggart] Abreu, who said he talks to his bat regularly, regardless of how he’s faring at the plate. He thinks he might have figured out why it hadn’t been working for him this year, though. “I was talking to [my bats] in English, and they don’t understand English,” https://www.mlb.com/news/jose-abreu-hits-two-run-home-run-in-win-over-dodgers?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share 106 comments baseball