After a career-worst season last year, it looked like any hope of Alex Gordon ever returning to a respectable level of play was down the drain. He had taken his decline to a new floor, losing power and losing his superb-plate skills by a significant margin. For a huge majority of 2017, he looked lost at the plate. With pitchers constantly overmatching him, he looked like he didn’t belong at this level of play.
Fast-forward to March and April of this year and things get even worse. Hitting an ugly .127/.234/.164 in Spring Training didn’t ease any worries and seeing a .