Joey Gallo has not been a good baseball player for the New York Yankees. Does that mean he is eternally doomed? No. However, he isn’t the guy they got from the Texas Rangers. He is nearing 400 plate appearances in pinstripes and has accumulated 0.2 fWAR — replacement level performance from a player with this level of talent is truly mind-boggling. I’m going to try and make sense of all this through the lens of what it means to be a hitter or more specifically, how can Joey Gallo be a formidable version of himself?
Is there anything left in Joey Gallo?
