Mateo's Bottom of the Eighth (Infield in 2023 talk)

[Moose Milligan]

14 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Fine, but the lows need to get shorter.  You can’t have him disappear for a couple of months at a time.  

We're in agreement, but I'm not sure how to do that.  Yeah, it's a game full of streaks, hot and cold but RMC's are some of the most brutal I've seen when it comes to being cold.  Not just how bad he looks at the plate but the length of them.  6-8 weeks of being terrible, it's bad.

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

We're in agreement, but I'm not sure how to do that.  Yeah, it's a game full of streaks, hot and cold but RMC's are some of the most brutal I've seen when it comes to being cold.  Not just how bad he looks at the plate but the length of them.  6-8 weeks of being terrible, it's bad.

Right.  Before his 53-homer season, Chris Davis was considered streaky, but his bad streaks tended to last 2-3 weeks, not two months.  That was before his bad streaks were 162 games a year.  

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Right.  Before his 53-homer season, Chris Davis was considered streaky, but his bad streaks tended to last 2-3 weeks, not two months.  That was before his bad streaks were 162 games a year.  

That is just unfair.  I distinctively remember Davis having a streak of a good 10 games in which he looked like a major league hitter back near the 2019 All Star game.