Consistency isn’t really something that’s attainable in baseball. A .300 hitter doesn’t hit .300 every month; he hits .200 in April, June and August, then .400 in May, July and September. The game is too prone to randomness to be able to pencil in anyone for “consistent” month-over-month production.
Nobody embodies that better than Didi Gregorius. Everyone knows by now the story of his 2018: the Ruthian April, followed by just about the worst May a professional baseball player could have. Since then he’s recovered and been a respectable hitter offensively, but just the visual of his year is mindblowing:
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As Didi’s bat has come around, it got me thinking about his overall value as a player.