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Originally Posted by siberian khatru
Poor Hosmer just keeps spiraling deeper into the black hole. He's at .250/.321/.396 on the season. Hitting .147/.190/.179 over the last month.
We've all seen that before. His slumps can be epic.
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The Padres subreddit is starting to freak out -
Beyond the Box Score and
Fangraphs released scathing articles about Hos in the last week. Yesterday the subreddit discovered an old article that talked about Hos' batting coach, his brother.
The subreddit talked about how Matt Stairs will likely be able to get him to shorten his swing after this slump. I hope they're right - maybe getting his heat in a bigger market will inspire Hos to change, but we'll see.
The thing that fascinated me about Hos is that he really never changed as a player from his rookie season to his last. He was who he was - and he will forever be a hero for that in KC, we accepted him for who he was - but it might be a different story in SD now that he's landed that contract.
I hope he figures it out - because I wish him nothing but the best and would build the statue for him myself if I could