Baseball is a game of adjustments, so it probably is time to adjust one of the standard measures of what constitutes an overmatched hitter.
I’m referring to the Mendoza Line — a .200 batting average — which students of the game know is the dividing line between merely struggling and utter futility.
The term was named after Mario Mendoza, a light-hitting infielder who had a career .215 average. According to Mendoza, his former Seattle Mariners teammates, Tom Paciorek and Bruce Bochte, made up the term to make fun of him back in 1979, and it became famous the following year when they poked fun at Kansas City Royals star George Brett for a slow start.