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Robert already has a 120 game sample prior to this season. He was a 5 WAR player who looked amazing for 3 months and was terrible for a month. I think he'll be a streaky hitter in general. Hopefully his struggles recently are just mechanical or the league adjusting to him. He'll always have a chance to adjust back.

AV has 3 balls hit over 100 MPH today.

The projection systems definitely saw Robert as more like Mike Cameron coming into this season. Truth is that Cameron at his peak was a 4-5 WAR player who was massively underrated because of the era he played in. I still think Robert has a much higher ceiling, but a floor of Mike Cameron isn't the end of the world.

I thought it was problematic when I saw him getting blown away by a 94 MPH fastball in that last game against Seattle. That's the kind of stuff he did when he struggled at the end of 2020.

I thought him opening his stance was supposed to help him hit the inside fastball and not go for those low sliders away.

Robert is in a slump. He's been in one since the last game against Seattle.

Seeing everyone trying to pull outside breaking pitches is pretty frustrating. You know he's gonna throw them out there. Stone is right, he's barely pitching righties inside.

Still got more errors than hits lol

Banks making Keuchel look like a minor league pitcher.

Vaughn has barrel'd Bieber up twice.

Little did you know that the strong start would only last 1 start.

3 shutout innings from Banks.

Wasn't that opening day in Cleveland in 08?

lol now TA knows how to field

Rosario just pulled a TA

LMAO the scoreboard guy sure thought TA went.

That's about the only silver lining to this game. Keuchel might suck, but we gotta hope he doesn't completely suck for another 6 starts.

Keuchel actually threw pretty well in the first inning. I think the errors clearly got to him as he kept leaving pitches up in the 2nd inning. Whether we like it or not, Keuchel will continue to get starts until Lynn comes back in June.

These were routine ass plays just about any MLer would have made. If we thought Leury's yips were bad last week, TA managed to out-do him.

I feel like the Cleveland score keeper felt bad for Keuchel and designated the bouncer that got by Abreu as an error as opposed to a hit. It really could have gone either way.

Why didn't they take it out on him in his first start then?

His defensive metrics are gonna fail to recover from this one game all season.

Did this team turn into a AAA team?

Dude what is going on?

TLR needs to pull TA and Robert right now so they actually put out half a ML lineup in game 2. Otherwise we're totally getting swept.