Fans tend to have knee-jerk reactions and those are not helpful. Zack Gelof proved, in 2023, how good he could be in the big leagues and earned the right to work through “sophomore slump” difficulties without looking over his shoulder to see if an 0 for 8 might get him booted off the roster.
That being said, sometimes a confluence of factors meets at the same point and right now that point has come for Gelof. Only in the same way Lawrence Butler needed — and benefited from — something from a “kick in the pants” to a “reset” and just as the same fate fell previously on Seth Brown, Nick Allen, Ryan Noda, and Jordan Diaz.