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I’m in love with Remillard

This is impressive incompetence

Yes it absolutely is true. Some flaws are difficult if not impossible to fix through coaching. It's on the player to have good at-bats, not swing at garbage, and not be completely unable to hit sliders.

Frazier couldn't touch a bunch of hittable fastballs. Yeesh.

There's no coaching that can help anyone if a player swings at almost every pitch. That is on them. He is having severe pitch recognition issues right now.

His power is not a fluke. He’s a dangerous hitter. He can’t be dangerous if he swings at everything. Put your bias aside and look at what he’s doing objectively.

I’m absolutely giving him a chance. He’s been making very poor swing decisions, even for this lineup, and he needs to stop doing that. His power is scary good and pitchers are going to work around him. If he gets himself out like this he’s got no chance. If he doesn’t get himself out then he’s a potent weapon.

Pot, meet kettle

Robert is at 2.9 WAR and a 128 OPS+. He makes bad decisions but he is the least of their issues. TA's stat line is what Jake would be if he stops hitting homers.

No, I’d say that I can barely stand watching this team, period. Jake just stands out because his swing decisions are so dramatically poor, even compared to the rest of these idiots.

Oh man Jake had a cookie there

I don't think anyone in this lineup does. Nasty stuff.

Nobody is going to throw him a strike if he swings at everything. It doesn't matter where he hits in the lineup. He could hit in front of Ohtani and Trout and they'd still throw him sliders outside and fastballs up and in off the plate.

I don't know how much more I can spell this out for you. He's swinging at everything. That won't work long term. It hasn't really been working for a month. Only his power is keeping him in the majors right now. I like Jake a lot, but I can barely watch his at-bats because of the poor swing decisions he makes. He needs to be much more selective or that WAR is going to take a nosedive.

Even as incompetent as the White Sox are I'm sure they're not telling him to swing at almost every pitch. He needs to work this out or he won't be in the majors for long.

Whatever Seby figured out last year is gone now.

Yeah, ok. His struggles are Grifol's fault for batting him 7th, not his own for swinging at 90% of the pitches that come his way.

He's swinging at everything. You can't be successful in the majors that way, even as strong as he is.

It's a sad state of affairs when so many people rush to defend a guy hitting so poorly over the past month because sometimes he's the only offense the team can muster.

Mariners have been great about scoring right after we do in these two games so far.

No, it is not. It's the only thing preventing him from being absolutely atrocious. He needs to start being more selective or as soon as he's not hitting for power he'll be sent down.

See my other post. He's not doing anything else well.

He's hitting .160 in the last two weeks lol he doesn't homer all the time. That's all he does - occasionally run into one.

Yay a walk AND a run without a homer!

.205/.230/.470 over the last 28 days, .167/.222/.571 last 14, .160/.192/.560 last 7. The homers are disguising a bad ballplayer.