I’m not one to give up easily on a player. Player development isn’t linear across the span of a professional career. We’ve seen the Alex Gordon story unfold in Kansas City. Not long thereafter, we saw something similar with Mike Moustakas. Players with potential can struggle for quite some time before ultimately putting it all together and becoming exactly what we’d hoped for all along.
I cover the minor leagues so of course, I’m a bit of an optimist — maybe too much so. After all, preaching about potential is a slippery slope. It’s easy to look at the great things a player does while looking past the bad.