It’s late enough in the season that we can start reading into numbers a bit, so here are a few: Nick Castellanos is hitting .308 with a .538 slugging percentage. Good. The underlying metrics are even better: He’s struck out as often (9.3% of the time) as he’s walked. Both figures would be, by far, the best of his career. His chase rate is 29.9. That would also be the best.
It’s 11 games, and despite the first sentence above, that’s not a lot. But for a team that entered the offseason looking to make changes — if not in personnel, then in approach — no one has successfully embodied it more than Castellanos.