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At least in the pros. His first year (AFL) he was atrocious. Too long a layoff took it out of him. Okay, so his first month in AA? Atrocious. He thought he might never hit again. Hit .300 in the months that followed, but that first month was terrible.
And now he's a week in and putting up terrible numbers at AAA. I just think he starts slow. If he doesn't hit for a couple more weeks then I'll really believe it.
And I'll also believe that he'll come around and be the .300/.400/.450 hitter I know he is. The rubber just takes a minute to hit the road, apparently.
All the more reason for him not to hit the bigs until he's got up a good cruising speed for merging into that kind of traffic.
~G