OAKLAND, Calif. – Nick Castellanos is going through a slump.
Not at the plate, where his batting average is .246, certainly not indicative of the lasers he has been spraying around the field early on this season.
No, Castellanos is going through an early season slump at third base, where defensively, he hasn’t been making the kind of plays he’s been expected to after such an improvement last season and this spring.
“Just a little bit of a slump,” Ausmus said. “Defensive slumps happen. They don’t happen as often as offensive slumps, but they do happen.