Four days turns a career around?

[D-train]

I think Jarred's brain will always be his hang up.

I watched an interview done in the dugout after his recent hot stretch and it always seems there's just a lot of empty space where tangible thoughts struggle to collect themselves.

He's got a lot of athletic talent, but man... he just seems really, really dumb.

I don't think hes dumb. I just think his supposed talent was overblown. People repeated the "all the talent in the world" line enough that it became accepted as fact even though all the stats show otherwise.

Even his AAA numbers are pedestrian. He has a pretty large sample size down there and he is a .260 hitter with an .800 OPS and striking out 27% of his AB's. The PCL League average last year was .271 with a .803 OPS. He is basically an average AAA player and I don't think he was ever going to be a standout Big Leaguer even if he was the most mentally adept player ever.

Exactly! Just stunning to me how many people are too lazy to have their own opinions based on reality vs. just following the general consensus and group think. Just lack any semblance of critical thinking. Same thing happened during the draft with people thinking the Hawks were idiots for drafting Price in the first round and thinking Colt is going to come up and hit like 1987 Wade Boggs.