DJ LeMahieu, like many Yankees, has fallen short of expectations thus far in 2021. Despite the three major WAR metrics rating him as somewhere between a solid everyday player and a good everyday player despite his slow start, that’s well below the standard to which Yankee fans have become accustomed since his arrival in 2019. Of course, two Silver Slugger awards and two top-four MVP finishes in two seasons set the bar pretty high.
There’s been much hand-wringing about what’s “wrong” with DJ, and what needs to change or be fixed for him to return to the savage in the box he’s been in pinstripes, so there’s no need to ask and try to answer that question again.