After a breakthrough season in 2017, Yasiel has struggled early on in 2018. He is slashing a measly .195/.256/.244 which is down significantly from every single year he has previously played.
This comes as an unpleasant surprise to fans everywhere because it looked like in 2017 he had finally turned the cover and would become at least a portion of the player we thought he would be when he got off to that unreal start during his rookie season. 2018 was supposed to be the year Yasiel Puig proved he had finally become a consistent player.
However, that has just not been the case for Puig early in 20187.