I was assured that Jesse Winker was a good dude. But hitting a double and a home run last night to step on this article is at the very least discourteous, if not outright malicious. Still, one good night where you hit a home run off a 32-year-old reliever currently striking out a whopping 11% of batters faced won’t fix a whole season. So I think it’s still worth examining what’s gone wrong for Winker.
You are all too aware of this, so I won’t be belabor the premise: Jesse Winker used to be an elite hitter, but he has performed very badly this year.