My hope when Arcia was rehabbing was that the Twins would see his strikeout rate was far too high even at AAA and keep him there with the mission that he needed to figure that part out prior to coming back to the Twins. That's still what I would do (demote him). Unfortunately, the Twins don't have any OFers to bring up, except Hicks, who also needs to figure things out at AAA.

It's probably time to give Mauer an outfielder's glove and consider giving Vargas, already on the 40, a chance as DH and backup 1B for a while. Arcia and Hicks need to spend their time through July down on the farm with specific goals in mind. Arcia can obviously destroy pitching there, but apparently he can't not strikeout a lot there. Fix that and come back.

Arcia's K rate throughout his minor league career, including his time this year at AAA, is right around 20%- not great, but not "far too high" either. Last year, his OBP at AAA was .426, this year, it's .365. With his BA basically identical, the difference is in the BB rate. He has demonstrated plate discipline in the minors. He needs to put it together at the show.

His minor league K rate of around 20% is fine. If he can bring his big league K rate of around 30% down to that, he'll be doing great. Another, albeit better fielding, right fielder, Yasiel Puig strikes out at around 20% and walks at around 10%. I think Arcia's hit and power tools profile similarly. If he can bring to the show the plate discipline he has demonstrated in the minors, I think we could see comparable production. He has nothing left to prove at AAA.

Now that's how you break a slump!