It’s one thing for Rhys Hoskins to stand tall, puff out his chest and, in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary, insist there’s nothing to see here. How else is a 24-year-old who has played fewer than 100 games in the majors and achieved an unprecedented level of success supposed to react to the first significant batting slump of his career?
But it’s a whole other thing when the man who is paid to help Hoskins snap out of it agrees that nothing’s wrong.
“We’ve been through all of it,” Phillies hitting coach John Mallee said.