That's always been his failure: his absymal performances against RHP. If he can fix that he can at least compete for a DH spot. I don't expect him to ever play a full-time 1B for us, but maybe he can give somebody a day off occasionally. Once he gets not-bad at the fielding aspect, that is.
Montero is 24. That's not old. But the guy is gonna have to put up great numbers against both lefty and righty pitching to get his shot back. It'll be hard to keep 1.000 OPS kind of numbers since he's only ever had 60 points of patience, even in the minors. But he'll need to iso a ton and keep that batting average over .300.
So far, so good, even if the Ks are a little high. He definitely wants those HRs - but the Ms like greedy hitters anyway, right?
~G
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