Patience or Panic 6/12 – CarGo, Schwarber, Tanaka

Welcome back to Patience or Panic, where I tried to read the rotten tea leaves of the league’s most frustrating players and try to assess whether you should sound the...

Welcome back to Patience or Panic, where I tried to read the rotten tea leaves of the league's most frustrating players and try to assess whether you should sound the alarms or keep calm and carry on. The reality is, it's generally folly to assume any of these players will end the season with normal-looking numbers at this point, as that would be gambler's fallacy. But nobody wants to be the guy to sell low on a player right before they figure things out again, so let's see if there is reason to hold out hope for these downtrodden few.

Carlos Gonzalez - .227 AVG, 5 HR, 32 R, 19 RBI, 1 SB in 241 PA

Especially on a team where even a guy like Mark Reynolds can experience a resurgence, it's all the more frustrating to watch a supposed superstar go nearly 250 plate appearances while getting outproduced by Andrelton SImmons and Jed Lowrie (not to knock them, they've been great). He hasn't been any better in the month of June either, with just 1 Home Run and a .160 AVG. If there's anything to point to in the positive direction, you could say his 6/7 BB/K ratio in June is showing improvement, and his 10.8% BB% is a career best and his 19.9% K rate is the best since 2012. But the quality of his contact has been the major issue, as his 29.9% Hard Contact against 20.4% Soft Contact% is far below his career rates, while he's also hitting the lowest FB rate since 2012 and a a nearly 50% GB%. With those rates, his 9.4% HR/FB may not regress to the level the optimists hope it will. At 31, it's probably folly to assume the star is washed up, but he's right in that middle ground where both optimists and pessimists have strong arguments. But I think he's just not worth the name value and I'll be in the PANIC camp.

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Ben Pernick

I've been writing for Pitcher List since the beginning, and have been a fantasy baseball addict now for 20 years. I grew up as a Red Sox fan in New York, but now I declare allegiance only to my fantasy teams.

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