How concerned should we be about Mookie Betts and the Dodgers?
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Mookie struggles.
Feel pretty concerning to me.
We've talked about this so much, trying to pick through this Dodgers season when they struggle, what is real, what is meaningful, what is small sample size theater.
But the Mookie stuff every week that it continues, I think it gets more and more concerning.
Would you agree with that?
Yeah, and you can kind of cling to the things that he's still doing well, which is, of course, playing a good shortstop.
He's not striking out, he's not swinging and missing.
He feels like he's healthy, uh, he's tried to work through a lot of these different things.
And yet, the results are just not there.
There is just no juice in that bat.
And so even though he is making a lot of contact, it is just not the kind of contact that we're used to seeing from him.
So, it is pretty concerning.
I think putting it all on Mookie is, is a little bit unfair.
Obviously, he's the one hitting at the top of the lineup, but there are a lot of other hitters in this lineup, especially with Muny out.
They're not necessarily keeping this, uh, this lineup moving.
So, I don't know, man, it is, it is quite a departure though.
I mean, we've never, we've never seen Mookie healthy and playing this poorly.
It is, it is, or at least offensively, it is that simple.
The Dodgers' intimidation factor stemmed from an unbelievable top 3 and a very, very impressive top 6, right?
The top 3 being Otani Bets Freeman, Otani Solotai, Freddie and Mookie have been bad now for 2 months.
Mookie has an OPS that starts with a 6.
Which is not what you're expecting from the future Hall of Famer at the top of the lineup, but once you go past that top 3 and you go to Will Smith, Te Oscar, Hernandez, Max Muncy, Will Smith has been one of the best hitters in the world this year, but Muncy is out and Te Oscar has been bad for a month and a half, and so, This is not an offense that can single-handedly win games in the way that it could for the first two months of the season when the Dodgers were rolling out me and you to suck up innings as they tried to get their pitching healthy.
And so that's why I think they've hit the n.
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