Manager and a modern hitting coach to try to salvage some of these swings/approaches. Before they go jettisoning talent they have to try a new voice on both fronts.
I still think that 8 game losing streak was the damn breaking in the clubhouse. Guys just look disinterested or checked out half the time going through the motions. TLR lost the team early this year and there is no coming back from that.
So a struggling Moncada hitting righty is somehow a better option in the 3 spot than Robert vs a LHP. Someone explain that to me, because I'm obviously stupid.
"Manager is drunk and half assing it half of the time, why should I bust my ass every night?" has to enter into the back of these guy's minds eventually.
I definitely buy that there could be some “TLR doesn’t give a shit, why should I?” energy in the clubhouse, knowing that nothing is going to change no matter what.