Kris Bryant has not looked like himself this season, nor has he looked like what we saw last year when a shoulder injury hampered his performance. Something was clearly off mechanically as he lunged into his swing and waved right through the types of pitches he should have punished. It wasn’t that the power was gone, he just wasn’t swinging like himself.
Some of the issues are clear to casual observers, but a lot of what was going wrong with Bryant had to do with the kind of nuance you can only discern with a keen eye and either still images or slo-mo.