Jesse Winker is having a frustrating year. He said as much in his recent interview with Corey Brock of The Athletic.
“This isn’t what I come to the field to perform like,” Winker said. “I want to help the team win. And as of late, I haven’t been.”
It’s nice to see players own up to their struggles in a humanizing fashion, in part because typically solutions begin with recognizing there’s a problem. Last night’s blunder on a ball rolling into the left field that allowed runner to score from first on what would perhaps have been at least a second-and-third situation, or perhaps even first-and-third or first-and-second depending on the defender.