At the end of April, there was plenty of optimism surrounding Nick Markakis. The veteran outfielder was sporting a pleasing slash line of .310/.390/.437 across exactly 100 plate appearances and visions of a bounce-back to his Baltimore Orioles days were in full bloom. Since then, however, things have gone south for the Atlanta Braves right fielder and, as usual, power is at the center of it all.
It should be noted that, on the whole, Markakis has not been “bad” through two-plus months of play. Both FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference assign him with a 0.