A pattern I've noticed this year is when players came up from Rochester or from somewhere else... they were initially on fire but after 5-10 games their bats cool off significantly.  Started with Colabello out of spring training... then Willingham and Arcia after their rehab were tearing it up for several games then nearly nada.  Kendrys was hot when he first joined up then quickly cooled off.  Parm was hot then cold.  Seems like there might have been another or two.  Is this Bruno's effect?  Coincidence?  Or George Bush's fault?

Edited July 31, 201412 yr by ThaBamaHamma

A pattern I've noticed this year is when players came up from Rochester or from somewhere else... they were initially on fire but after 5-10 games their bats cool off significantly.  Started with Colabello out of spring training... then Willingham and Arcia after their rehab were tearing it up for several games then nearly nada.  Kendrys was hot when he first joined up then quickly cooled off.  Parm was hot then cold.  Seems like there might have been another or two.  Is this Bruno's effect?  Coincidence?  Or George Bush's fault?

 

It's pretty common across baseball. Guys enter the league and there isn't much in the way of video or experience against them. They succeed for awhile and then once the league finds a hole, they exploit it and the prospect's numbers drop like a stone.

 

The great players adjust immediately. The potentially good players adjust in time, possibly after a demotion. The bad players never adjust.