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Originally Posted by doomy3
Raul Mondesi has been brutal. No argument, but he's a 9 hole hitter who we expected to be overmatched.
Eric Hosmer is a far bigger problem right now, IMO. He has to start coming through with runners on base, and has to quit rolling over on everything. He's killing us in the cleanup spot.
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Hosmer and Gordon are bigger problems because they are veteran stars who aren't producing, and there's almost nothing you can do about it. Realistically, you're not going to bench them for any period of time. You just have to hope they snap out of it, and big time.
However, Mondesi is a problem you CAN do something about, starting with not letting him hit with the game on the line in a season in which you are supposedly trying to win as many games as possible in the last hurrah for a veteran group, the core of which could be traded if they don't win enough games by the trade deadline.
Just because Mondesi isn't THE problem doesn't mean he's not A problem, and one that CAN be addressed fairly easily, since half our roster consists of second basemen.