Twins Minor League Report (7/6): Saturday in the Minor-League Parks

[OptimisticTwinsFan]

1 hour ago, RpR said:

Joey Gallo had a good OPS last season for the Twins.

Three games ago he was 3 for 4, 3 Ks and a walk, he is failing.

I am going to leave this here because there is no point. Is there a chance that Julien has regressed from the player that he was in the MLB last season and from the player he was throughout his entire minor league career over 4-5 seasons? It is possible. 

There are also plenty of players who go through sophomore slumps, work through the process to adjust to the adjustments teams make against them, and are successful. Even this year, players like Buxton, Correa, and more had similar or worse OPS+ to Julien through the first 50 games of the season before catching fire.

It is the wrong process to give up on a player who had a slow third of the season when they have the pedigree and talent that Julien has -- especially if they are 2 good games away from a .400 obp and .800 OPS. Baseball is a streaky sport. 

Julien is not Joey Gallo, he has much better plate discipline and uses the whole field as a hitter and makes a lot more contact. Julien will struggle with contact at times, he's not a perfect player. I think he does have above average or elite skills in multiple areas as a hitter. He has one of the best understanding of the strike zone and discipline at swinging only at good pitches in the league. He also has above average power, especially to left-center and the opposite field. This is the right process for an approach that should be successful at the major league level. 

But you don't want to see him succeed so that's fine. We will see what happens.