If Joe Panik had played to his career numbers on the back of his baseball card, the Giants likely wouldn’t have released him this month.
Only nine games into his Mets career, the second baseman has rediscovered some of the bat control that made him a tough out at the start of his major league career.
“We’re just working on staying short to the ball and compact with my swing,” Panik said of his sessions with hitting coach Chili Davis and his assistant Tom Slater. “Just try to get back to the hitter I’ve been in the past and not try to do too much.