Tork's problem is nothing in between his hot stretches and abymsal stretches. He doesn't make enough contact in between hitting homers. It's a homer, double with nobody on base, popout, or strikeout.
Which would be strange given the fact that they wanted to test all of these young guys in the majors. Every single beat writer and podcast said that the arrow on Meadows was pointing up. It is only 9 games; His speed and defense are a plus but he certainly cannot hit this poorly for much longer.
I don't want to hear about holding open spots for JHM and Jung when the young guys you already have aren't consistent.
You add reasonably priced vets to up the floor of the team. Then you sort out which young guys are good, and the ones who suck.
last few years...two horrible games turns in to an 8 game losing streak. Let's see if they've improved enought to stem the tide..split against the Pirates and come back home.
This season is about trying to figure out if the 'young core' is good. If they win 84 games, that would be a nice bonus. They could have improved the offense with small moves but chose to roll with this. It's about the young players figuring it our leveling off to what they are. Every game is a data point.
I think they still have the late Sunday starts because everyone thought the Peacock deal(11:30 AM games) would be renewed...Peacock and mlb never came to terms.
I wonder if they will change them back.